Vulgar
10-26-2015, 09:02 PM
Mock epic
A poem that plays with the conventions of the epic to comment on a topic satirically. In “Mac Flecknoe,” John Dryden wittily flaunts his mastery of the epic genre to cut down a literary rival. Alexander Pope’s “The Rape of the Lock” recasts a petty high-society scandal as a mythological battle for the virtue of an innocent.
There is no requirement for the length of your mock epic.
Examples:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173445
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174172
A poem that plays with the conventions of the epic to comment on a topic satirically. In “Mac Flecknoe,” John Dryden wittily flaunts his mastery of the epic genre to cut down a literary rival. Alexander Pope’s “The Rape of the Lock” recasts a petty high-society scandal as a mythological battle for the virtue of an innocent.
There is no requirement for the length of your mock epic.
Examples:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173445
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174172