Week 18 Theme: Mock Epic
 

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