Why did satire became popular in the age of Dryden & Pope? (700 words)I want to get an elaborate answer.

The satire originated, in literature, during the very
earliest literary periods (periods of Horace and Juvenal). Later, poets such as Dryden,
Pope, and Johnson, wishing to return to the classical forms, gave rebirth to the
satire.

Given that the satire's purpose was to "poke fun
at" the reactions and feelings people had to the political and social world around them,
the Seventeenth century was a perfect place to examine people given the unrest brought
about by civil war of the Seventeenth century.

While the
satire was enjoyed by most (giving people the ability to laugh at themselves) the
underlying message provided one by which people could examine the vices they held
up.

Given that the satire included elements of irony and
metaphorical language, a reader needed to be active concerning the reading given if they
were not they would miss the moral, or lesson, being
taught.

Overall, the satire provided a sort of comic relief
for the people of the time. This being said, those the satire was written about tended
to disregard the work as unimportant and many times the authors were deemed outcasts for
going against the norm.