Essay on Man Moral Essays and Satires Author:Alexander Pope Alexander Pope (1688-1744) wrote this philosophical poem is to vindicate the ways of God, and to prove that man's failure to see perfection is due to limited vision. The poem is comprised of couplets, consisting of four epistles. Pope hoped to prove that the scheme of the universe is the best in spite of appearances of evil, and to demonstrate... more » that our failure to see the perfection of the world is due to our limited vision.« less