The answer is that the Pope used the reductio ad absurdum or mock-epic genre to weave humor into the poem, The R ape of the Lock.
The mock-epic genre resembles the epic in that its central concerns are serious and often moral. Although it is the idea of its style,it deviates from the epic in the fact that the approach must now be satirical rather than earnest is symptomatic of how far the culture has fallen.
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In her poetry, bradstreet often use words that able to make the readers feel her true expression toward an event or occurence
Bradstreet managed to express the feelings of comfort that she managed to find when she built her relation with higher power (God) during her childbirth. She make many readers belief the existence of God and conver them to the belief of Puritanism
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