![]() She is tortured by the separation and by her unwilling vow of silence - arguably, a symbolic castration - which she takes with her eyes fixed upon Abélard rather than upon the cross (line 116). It is an Ovidian heroic epistle inspired by the 12th-century story of Héloïse's illicit love for, and secret marriage to, her teacher Pierre Abélard, perhaps the most popular teacher and philosopher in Paris, and the brutal vengeance that her family exacts when they castrate him, even though the lovers had married.Īfter the assault, and even though they have a child, Abélard enters a monastery and bids Eloisa to do the same. Published in 1717, Eloisa to Abelard is a poem by Alexander Pope (1688–1744). ![]() ![]() Abelard and his pupil, Heloise by Edmund Leighton. ![]()
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