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mock-heroic
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mock-heroic
1. (of a literary work, esp a poem) imitating the style of heroic poetry in order to satirize an unheroic subject, as in Pope's The Rape of the Lock
2. burlesque imitation of the heroic style or of a single work in this style


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Over 600 pages long, written by three poets, about three years in the making, Phoebe 2002: An Essay in Verse by Jeffery Conway, Lynn Crosbie, and David Trinidad is many things: mock epic poem in sixteen books anchored by a scene-by-scene exegesis of the movie All About Eve; a meditation on American popular culture, including class, gender, aging, and mortality; and an enactment of many pleasures, especially the movies and show business ephemera.
But, the other side says, don't forget the sympathetic treatment of Catherine of Aragon in Henry VIII[ A fit subject for one of Alexander Pope's mock epics, perhaps, but otherwise hardly worth wasting much ink or energy over.
 
 
 
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