The theme of the first part focuses on poetry. I never really liked poetry because I believe that I have no capacity to understand it well, plus it has a special structure. I believe that only talented people can write good poetry. We started seeing
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, a Mexican poet who lived in the era of New Spain. I got to explain about one of his most notorious. "Response to Sor Filotea of the Cross" and found some interesting things about this letter.
The letter begins with several words of Sor Juana sparsely think were very hazardous to the situation in which he lived. Wrote in a sarcastic tone that was not supposed to have the women of that time with men, much less religious men.
"very illustrious Lord, my Lady: Not my will, my poor health and my fear just as many days have suspended my answer. How much if, the first step was to stumble my clumsy pen two impossible? The first (and for me the most rigorous) is able to answer your most learned, discreet, holy and loving letter " Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
The history of this letter is that in 1960, Sor Juana wrote a critique of a sermon Jesuit and this was published without his permission under the pseudonym "Sor Filotea Cross," the letter the public the Bishop of Puebla, Manuel Fernández de Santa Cruz. In the letter, the bishop expressed his anger to a woman outside Sor Juana studious and not spent so much to religious work. Then in response
in 1961 Sor Juana wrote " reply to the illustrious poet Sor Filotea Cross" in which he defended his right and of all women to study and learn. The conflicts continued but the letter became a feminist manifesto.
This letter interested me very much because device that somehow Sor Juana challenge his time defending his intelligence and knowledge they had acquired and how much will it cost to defend. Well
close this post with some of the phrases I liked most of what I read from the letter.
"I came back (bad I said, they never cease), I continued, I mean the studious task (which for me was to break in all the moments that were left in my obligation) to read and ma s reading, studying and more studying, no other master than the same books. Already seen how hard it is to study in those characters soulless, lacking the live voice and teacher's explanation, since all this work I very willingly suffered for love of the arts. "
& ldquo , I God has done me the favor of great love of truth, that since I scratched the first light of reason was so vehement and powerful inclination letters or repression of others (I've had many) or reflexed own (I've done quite a few) have been enough to stop this natural follow that God put in me. "
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