Alexander Popes Essay on Man -- Alexander Popes Essay on Man

Alexander Popes Essay on Man - Man is Never SatisfiedAlexander Popes Essay on Man is a philosophical poem, written, characteristically in heroic couplet. It is an attempt to justify and vindicate the ways of God to man. Its also a warning that man himself is not as in his pride, he seems to believe the center of all things. Eventhough not truly Christian, the essay makes implicit assumption that man has fallen and that he mustiness seek his own salvation. Pope sets out to demonstrate that no matter how imperfect complex and disturbingly full evil the universe may count to be, it does function in a rational fashion, according to natural laws and is in fact considered as a whole perfect work of God. It appears unsatisfy to us precisely because our perceptions are limited by...