Alexander Pope comments on writers and critics and their
inability to use skill or lack of it in his usual scathing fashion. He could use the
most polite words with the most cutting effect. In these few lines he finds little
difference between the writer or aspiring writer and the supposdly learned man of
letters who is posing as his critic and botching the literary scene with his
crticism.
Thomas Parnell is speaking to his reader and
asks, almost commands him to bring his own selfish will and deep dark desires under
control. On the other hand Parnell advocates that the reader make every effort to know
God and in doing so find the joy that can be found only there.
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