The design of The Rape of the Lock parodies those of classical epics, and in this way it can exhibit Pope' s abundant creativeness, rich imagination and superb accomplishment of versification. Allusion, as a refined and unique rhetoric of language, is one of the important artifices of parody in the poem, the skillful employment of which not only adds color to the language and enhances the satire, but also deepens the poem' s theme and widens the readers' imaginative spaces, resulting in some association of ideas in relation to the moral problems.
