Explanations:
O thoughtless mortals! ever blind to fate,Too soon dejected, and too soon elate.
Answer: These remarkable and conspicuous lines have been taken from the poem “The Rape of the Lock” by Alexander Pope, the great 18h century poet. Here by these moralizing lines, the poet has revealed a general truth of human nature.
By discussing these two lines Pope is very critical of human beings by the present course of action. They are dejected or elated very quickly on the basis of their present loss or gain. When they are dejected, they do not remember that 'every cloud has a silver lining'. Again when they are elated or lost in boundless jubilation, they do not keep in mind that “Happiness is but an occasional episode in the long drama of pain.” Human beings are blind to their fate. They cannot foresee what fate has kept in store for them. A bit before, Belinda's face was overcast with a pall of gloom when she was on the verge of a disastrous defeat in the game of ombre with two powerful knights whom she promised to defeat single-handedly. But when she finally and fortunately won the game of ombre, she felt so elated and excited that her ecstatic shouts and cries reached the sky and there was a reverberation on the nearby walls, woods, and canals.
To sum up, we may say that Belinda's boundless elation is followed by the irreparable loss of her hair on the very day of her victory in the game of_ombre. Pope here seems to suggest that a balanced, not excessive, reaction to an occurrence really helps us.
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