This poem claims that everything in nature is like "bubbles on the sea," in that "they rise, they break, and to that sea return."
This poem claims that everything in nature is like "bubbles on the sea," in that "they rise, they break, and to that sea return." Vladimir Nabokov took the name "Zembla" from a place mentioned in this poem, whose second part declares that, faced with vice, "we first endure, then pity, then embrace." This poem's description of a "poor Indian, whose untutor'd mind / Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind" is an oft-invoked example of the noble savage. The first of the four (*) epistles that constitute this poem is about the Great Chain of Being, of which the speaker says that "All are but parts of one stupendous whole, whose body Nature is, and God the soul." This poem is the source of aphorisms like "Hope springs eternal in the human breast," "The proper study of mankind is man," and "Whatever is, is right." For 10 points, name this long poem about humanity by Alexander Pope.
This poem claims that everything in nature is like "bubbles on the sea," in that "they rise, they break, and to that sea return."
"An Essay on Man" 