The first images of the war or battle are that of the victim of battle. Starting at line four and extending to line ten, I find that Pope is using a great amount of imagery to depict the woman's wound and the fate upon which she has fallen. In line four he describes her wound in only three words "bleeding bosom gor'd," but he then extends the depiction of her wound into how it was obtained. He describes the knife or the dagger that she must have used to kill herself with as a "sword", which is something that would typically be found in battle rather than in the case of a suicide. He also brings in the theory of the ancient Roman justice system for not just war but any crime. It is much greater and braver to die by your own sword than by any other. She kills herself for the simple fact that in her ey

Pope sides with the ghost in the poem and criticizes her family and society for her death. In line thirty he states clearly his great dislike for the uncle who he labels as "Thou, mean deserter of thy brother's blood!" This is an apparent line drawn between what Pope believed should have occurred and what did occur, creating the image of enemy and ally. It is even an echo of a challenge to the uncle on how to raise or treat his family. Pope blasts society in lines forty-eight and forty-nine when he states that "...rites unpaid? / No friend's complaint, no kind domestic tear..." He seems to be stating that society abandoned her as much as her family did and that no one seems to even care that this young woman is gone. He once again has drawn a line saying, "you are the enemy and I am the ally." Now that the sides have been chosen the battle can be looked at much more closely.

These four lines in completion create a strong image of a soldier who has been killed. The woman was fighting for love and died in battle. At one point before her death she probably held some point of honor or beauty. Depending on her class she even held titles, if through no one else, at least through her father or uncle, but once she died, all of her titles, wealth, beauty and honor meant nothing. They are things that could not be carried with her in her death. The lines about her becoming a pile of dust also fit with the image of a soldier who has fallen in battle because she is a pile of du

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