Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz
Who is Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz
Doña Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana, better known as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (12 November 1648 – 17 April 1695) was a Mexican writer, philosopher, composer and poet of the Baroque period, and Hieronymite nun. Her contributions to the Spanish Golden Age gained her the nicknames of "The Tenth Muse" or "The Phoenix of America",; historian Stuart Murray calls her a flame that rose from the ashes of "religious authoritarianism".Sor Juana lived during Mexico's colonial period, making her a contributor both to early Spanish literature as well as to the broader literature of the Spanish Golden Age. Beginning her studies at a young age, Sor Juana was fluent in Latin and also wrote in Nahuatl, and became known for her philosophy in her teens. Sor Juana educated herself in her own li...
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Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz Poems
- My Divine Lysis
Espanol:
Divina Lysi mÃa:
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- Arraignment Of The Men
Males perverse, schooled to condemn
Women by your witless laws,
Though forsooth you are prime cause
Of that which you blame in them:
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- My Lady
(Español)
Perdite, señora, quiero
de mi silencio perdón,
si lo que ha sido atención
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- To Her Portrait
This that you see, the false presentment planned
With finest art and all the colored shows
And reasonings of shade, doth but disclose
The poor deceits by earthly senses fanned!...
- I Approach And I Withdraw
(Español)
Me acerco y me retiro:
¿quién sino yo hallar puedo
a la ausencia en los ojos...
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