bathos
(en)
(noun) a literary term coined by Alexander Pope to describe to describe amusingly failed attempts at sublimity (an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous); adj is "bathetic"
For instance, in his prose poem “Meditations in an Emergency,” after submitting various lyric gestures and attitudes to his bathetic reconstructions
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