What Pope poem begins, "In these deep solitudes and awful cells, / Where heav'nly-pensive contemplation dwells, / And ever-musing melancholy reigns; / What means this tumult in a vestal's veins ?"
Correct answer: D. Eloisa to Abelard
- A. The Rape of the Lock
- B. Solitude: An Ode
- C. The Dunciad
- D. Eloisa to Abelard
Explanation
These lines open Pope's *Eloisa to Abelard*, where Eloisa's secluded religious life is disturbed by memories of Abelard. The other poems do not centre on this tragic history of frustrated love.
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