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Item Broadsides on the Thames: the social context of The rape of the lock, II, 47-52(Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1986) Hahn, H. George (Henry George), 1942-; Towson University. Department of English[From article]: As Reuben Brower has shown, allusion in Pope is a resource equivalent to metaphor and imagery in other poets1 1 R. A. Brower, Alexander Pope: The Poetry of Allusion (Oxford, 1959). . Yet it is not merely by literary allusion that Pope achieves comic effect in The Rape of the Lock, II, 47-52, the depiction of Belinda's water passage to Hampton Court. He creates a comic irony in these verses by a careful blend of a Watteau-like scene with heroically allusive overtones and a crude Hogarthian undertone given strength by its appeal to contemporary awareness of abusive language by travellers on the Thames. The dual ironic contexts of the heroic and the prosaic further heighten the poem's comic incongruity.Item Tarsicius: a hagiographical allusion in Joyce's "Araby"(Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 1991) Hahn, H. George (Henry George), 1942-; Towson University. Department of English[From article]: In his story "Araby" Joyce alludes to a Roman martyr both to designate a comic touch by the narrator and to deepen the themes of disillusionment and deflated romanticism. This purposefully melodramatic allusion also provides another example of how closely religion is woven into Joyce's life and fiction.