【 】What is bathos ?||What is an example of bathos or anti-climax?

What is bathos ?

Answer:

A statement in which there is a sudden fall from the serious to the trivial or from the sublime to the ridiculous.

●What is an example of bathos or anti-climax?

•Not louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast,

When husbands,or when lapdogs breathe their last;

       (Pope:The Rape of the Lock)

Here is a sudden fall of importance from husbands to dogs.

•Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law,
Or some frail china jar receive a flaw,

       (Pope:The Rape of the Lock)

Here is a sudden fall from the importance of virginity to the brittleness of a china ware  suggesting that Belinda's virginity is as brittle as that of a china jar.

•but in the course of one revolving moon

Was chymist, fiddler,,statesman,and buffoon;

.......(Dryden:Absalom and Achitophel)

There is a sudden fall from several important positions to that of a crown.

       So over violent or over civil

     That every man with him was God or Devil.

           .......(Dryden:Absalom and Achitophel)

Here is a sudden fall from God to Devil.

Poets use anti-climax for Provoking  laughter and satiric purposes.

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