Explanations: Steel could the labour of the Gods destroy, And strike to dust the imperial towers to Troy;

Explanations:

Steel could the labour of the Gods destroy,

And strike to dust the imperial towers to Troy;

Answer: These remarkable and conspicuous lines have been taken from the poem “The Rape of the Lock” by Alexander Pope, the great 18th-century poet. Here the poet has depicted the invincible power of steel to destroy things beginning from an individual to a civilization.

It is known to all that steel is a hard and powerful metal. It has the strength and capacity to bring to an end to anybody or anything. The great structures, monuments, cities and civilizations which have survived the wears and tears of time, steel can annihilate them within a while with its mighty stroke. Steel is so powerful that it can even 'destroy the very labours of gods who worked hard to establish and secure the imperial city of Troy. But the mighty steel brought down to dust all the enviable walls and towers of the great city of Troy. Human beings create a structure with long labours, they build 'triumphal arches with toilsome efforts, but steel destroys it all in times of war of vengeance.

So, there should not be any wonder that beautiful Belinda would be a victim to the “conquering force of unresisted steel'.