here is often no marking of their graves but rather just the grass to cover where they lie. Pope even brings this image in when he writes “And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast.” He also gives her the image of a fallen soldier when he proclaims in lines seventy to seventy-one; “What once had beauty, titles, wealth, and fame. / How lov’d, how honour’d once...” as well as when he states in lines seventy-three and seventy-four; “A heap of dust alone remains of thee; / ‘Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!” 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 dust, which “all the proud shall be”. Every proud soldier who dies what they believe in becomes a pile of dust just like the lady in the poem.The war imagery in Pope’s poem helps define and clarify the point of view Pope has on the even that has occurred. It also gives Pope a poetic platform on which to condemn the opposite side. He uses the imagery to describe the victim of war, the way death and battle are in war, and the opposing sides of this war and why they are battling; creating a new view of the woman’s suicide and her as a soldier for love....
