In one of this author's poems, the speaker addresses "perverse males" who "with hot breath fogsthe glass,then laments it is not bright!"
In one of this author's poems, the speaker addresses "perverse males" who "with hot breath fogsthe glass,then laments it is not bright!" This author of "Arraignment of the Men" and "Pawns of aHouse" wrote "Pyramidal, funereal and EarthenBorn like shadow and aimed in vainLike the raisedpoint of an obeliskSet towards the sky" to begin "First Dream." She proclaims "by studying I maybecome less ignorant" in a response to the Bishop of (*) Puebla. In that work, "Letter to SisterPhilotea," she justifies her decision to join a Carmelite convent at the age of fifteen." An Octavio Paz'sThe Traps of Faith gives a biographical account of this author. For 10 points, name this Mexican poet,feminist, and Hieronymite nun whose many sonnets earned her the epithet the "Tenth Muse" ofMexico.
In one of this author's poems, the speaker addresses "perverse males" who "with hot breath fogsthe glass,then laments it is not bright!"
Sor Juana [or Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz; or Juana de Asbaje y RamÃ­rez de Santillana]