Be silent always when you doubt your sense
Ikkilanganda sukut saqla.
To error is human, to forgive divine.
Adashish insonga xos, kechirish esa Ollohga.
A musement is the happiness of those who can not think.
Vaqtichog’lik o’ylovsiz kishining baxti.
Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
Tiriklikda umid doim hamrohimizdir.
Shoirning o’z davrining siyosati, axloqi va she’riyatiga munosabati uning
satiralari va “Dunsiada” she’ri orqali mohirona tasvirlangan. O’zi yashayotgan
jamiyatining illatlari ustidan zaharxanda kinoyalar hech qaysi shoirda A.
Poupning “Qulfning buzilishi” (“The Rape of the Lock”) (1711) asaridagidek aniq
va ravshan tasvirlanmagan. “Doktor Arbusnotga qasida” (“Epistel to Doctor
Arbuthnot”) ko’pincha “Satiraga prolog” (“Prologue to the satira”) deb boshqa
nomda yuritiladigan asari jiddiy mavzularni qamrab olgan. Bunda Qirolicha Anna
satirik va siyosiy asarlar muallifiga yuzlanadi:
A man’s true merit tis not hard to find;
But each man’s secret standard in his mind,
That casting weight pride adds to emptiness,
This, Who can gratufy? For who can guess?
The bard whompilfer’d pastorals renown,
Who turns a Persian tale for half a crown,
Just writes to make his barrenness appear,
And strains, from hard - bound brains, eight lines a year;
Qasida Poupning adabiyot va jamiyat borasidagi qarashlarini tushuntirib
berishi bilan betakrordir. Shoirning “Doktor Arbusnotga qasida” asari bir necha
qismlardan iborat bo’lib, ular turli xil vaqtlarda yaratilgan, lekin mohirona tarzda
bir butun holga keltirilgan.
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Shoir bu asarida o’zi haqida “… oqibat va ezgulik uchun jafo chekkan va
butunlay do’stu dushmanlar bilan o’rab olingan”, deb aytadi.
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