What Does How Happy Is The Blameless Vestal Lot Mean
What Does “How Happy Is the Blameless Vestal Lot” Mean? In Alexander Pope’s poem “Eloisa to Abelard,” the line “How happy is the blameless vestal lot!” expresses the speaker’s envy of the nuns’ simple and pure existence. The vestal virgins of ancient Rome were chosen at a young age to serve the goddess Vesta for … Read more