One poet who lived in this modern-day country said "Even jades fracture; even gold ruptures" in a poem that repeats "Not forever on earth, only a brief time here."
One poet who lived in this modern-day country said "Even jades fracture; even gold ruptures" in a poem that repeats "Not forever on earth, only a brief time here." Another poet from here told of "corporeal chains" as the only thing that keeps the soul from liberty and described Ascalaphus as "Pluto's loose-tongued minister." An author from here created the sexually charged character of Splendor in a book whose protagonist encounters the Garden of (*) Ravana. One poet from here used the image of the "Pyramidal, doleful, mournful shadow" of "vain obelisks" to open her poem "First Dream." That poem was analyzed in the volume Traps of Faith by another poet from here, who wrote Eagle or Sun and wrote about going "among your body as among the world" in a poem that imagined a "willow of crystal, a poplar of water." For 10 points, name this country home to Sor Juana and the author of "Sunstone," Octavio Paz.
One poet who lived in this modern-day country said "Even jades fracture; even gold ruptures" in a poem that repeats "Not forever on earth, only a brief time here."
Mexico