Read Kataris’s article, “Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz” and Respond to the questions below regarding the text.
1) As a woman of the Renaissance, was Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz of her time or before her time? Explain.
2) Do you see any connection between the themes represented in her poems to the themes in Shakespeare’s verse reproduced on the last page of the article? Explain.
3) Five years before Juana Ines was born, Thomas Browne stated that the philosophy of hermeticism perceived the “visible world but a portrait of the invisible.” How does that apply to Juana Ines’s view of the world and her place in that world?
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