精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上Alexander PopeAn Essay on Man （know then thyself）The poem is written in iambic tetrameter, every two line have the same thyme at the last word.The poem is important in the sense that it embodies the 18th century concepts of the universe and mans place in it, that is man is made in the shape of God, and occupies a middle position in the Great Chain of Being. As the poet says sometimes we have too much knowledge and feel suspect about everything, but sometimes we have too
