Talk:MacFlecknoe

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This is Rajib Kumar Roy from SUST of Bangladesh. MacFlecnoe is considered as one of the greatest lampoon of any age and from any literature that come out. It may can be said a direct attack on the convensional way of writing epic or it is probaly making fun with literary wisdom in this matter, it is really wasting times as well as talents. But what we can't deny; the genious representation of mocking. Somehow I was in shock when I found lot of high allegory with no sense. "MacFlecknoe" traces its "hero"'s rise to stupidity in verse deliberately mimicking the style of and alluding to the Aeneid and other epics. Like the Odyssey, it starts in a kind of Olympus, only it's the realm of Nonsense, until recently ruled by Flecknoe. The dying king of dullness searches for a successor and, by virtue of his vices (as it were) MacFlecknoe (Shadwell) gets the nod. The rest of the poem develops by a pattern of mock praise of poetic vices wherein "success" is failure and the slightest deviation from the stultifying norm is a clear sign that somebody's got poetic talent.