Biography
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, full name Juana Inés de Asbaje Ramírez de Santillana, was born in San Miguel Nepantla on November 12, 1651, and died on April 17, 1695 at the Convent of San Jerónimo during an epidemic. She was a poet, dramatist, scholar, and nun, an outstanding writer of the Latin American colonial period and of the Hispanic Baroque. She was considered the tenth muse
Sor Juana’s most important poem was the Primero sueño and it was published in A Sor Juana Anthology in1988.
Sor Juana’s most important poem was the Primero sueño and it was published in A Sor Juana Anthology in1988.
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Interesting Facts
-She learned to read and write when she was three years old.
-Her exact date of birth is a mystery.
-She wrote her first literary work between the age of 6-8.
-She learned Latin to perfection.
-Her grandparents raised her; she spent her childhood taking care of them.
-Her image appears on the 200 pesos bill.
-Her exact date of birth is a mystery.
-She wrote her first literary work between the age of 6-8.
-She learned Latin to perfection.
-Her grandparents raised her; she spent her childhood taking care of them.
-Her image appears on the 200 pesos bill.
Poem
Suspend, Singer Swan
Suspend, singer swan, the sweet strain:
see how the lord that Delphi sees
exchanges for you the gentle lyre for pipe
and to Admetus makes a pastoral sound.
As gentle song, though strong, moved
stones and tamed the wrath of hell,
so it retreats, abashed, when you are heard:
your instrument blames the church itself.
For though the works of ancient builders
cannot match its columns,
nothing's greater than your song
when your clear voice strikes its stones,
and your sweet tones surpass it,
dwarf it, while making it grow the more.
Hombres necios que acusáis
Hombres necios que acusáis
a la mujer sin razón
sin ver que sois la ocasión
de lo mismo que culpáis:
si con ansia sin igual
solicitáis su desdén
¿por qué queréis que obren bien
si las incitáis al mal?
Combatís su resistencia
y luego, con gravedad,
decís que fue liviandad
lo que hizo la diligencia.
Parecer quiere el denuedo
de vuestro parecer loco
al niño que pone el coco
y luego le tiene miedo.
a la mujer sin razón
sin ver que sois la ocasión
de lo mismo que culpáis:
si con ansia sin igual
solicitáis su desdén
¿por qué queréis que obren bien
si las incitáis al mal?
Combatís su resistencia
y luego, con gravedad,
decís que fue liviandad
lo que hizo la diligencia.
Parecer quiere el denuedo
de vuestro parecer loco
al niño que pone el coco
y luego le tiene miedo.
