The Rape of the Lock is Pope’s first satire. It is a social satire as well as a mock-epic. It is mocking poem in which Pope Mocks not only at the “little unguarded follies” of the fair sex, tat the artificial social life of 18th century London as a whole. The fashion, the artificiality, vanity and frivolity of the age is exposed and ridiculed with the unfailing grasp of master. “The piece sparkles in every line.” “The touch is never too heavy, an air of gay good humor preserved throughout.” “The Rape of the Lock” is the triumph of the insignificant. The mockery arises from the exaltation of the trivial. At every step there is skilful mingling of the great with the trivial.