The English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in England dating from the late 15th to the early 17th century. It is associated with the pan-European Renaissance that is usually regarded as beginning in Italy in the late 14th century.
<u>Anne Bradstreet uses irony in her poems because she wants to disguise the beliefs that society is going to criticize. </u>Her favorite themes in her poetry are: devotion and worship to God, equality of women and the salvation of the soul in the hereafter. One subject that she almost never uses is the Catholic and ritual tradition.
<span>Basically this is because she is so terribly lonely. She roams the ranch looking for somebody, anybody to talk to. Lennie tries not to talk to her but she prevails, telling him that the other men are too busy with their horseshoe tournament to care whether he talks to her or not.</span>
