argues that woman rule the race, but men believe that they are the rulers. In most of Finchs works, she submerges political conflict in an explicitly female lyric voice (DeMaria 201). Finch creates both female poetry and poetry of abjection out of this situation- or, rather more accurately, those tangled subjectivies created the abject female poet out of her (201). She is comfortable criticizing one of the most powerful poets in her period (Pope) while killing him with kindness. Popes belief in Catholicism and Finchs belief in philosophy may have also been a cause of Finchs objection to The Rape of the Lock. The two writers had different viewpoints toward religion. Also, Finch may have seen more importance in writing about her own pain, while Pope finds it important to write about others pain. He writes about the pain of Belinda and Baron.In conclusion, there are several examples, as one can observe, of Finchs objection to The Rape of the Lock. The life and beliefs of these two authors were entirely different and this seems to be the major reason Finch may have objected to Popes poem. WORKS CITEDCunningham, J.S., ed. The Rape of the Lock. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966.DeMaria, Robert, ed. British Literature. Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers Inc., 1999.Goldgar, Bertrand, ed. Literary Criticism of Alexander Pope. New York: University of Nebraska Press, 1965.http://users.ox.ac.k/~worc0337/authors/anne.conway.htlmAnne Finchs Opposition to The Rape of the LockThe Restoration Period (1660-1700) was a period of social, political and philosophical turmoil, which laid the foundation for future centuries. This period was marked by an advance in colonization and trade and by the birth of the Whig and Tory parties. In poetry, works of Alexander Pope and Anne Finch and a number of other p...
