Soneto sor juana ines de la cruz12/4/2023 ![]() All this is presented in the beautiful, metaphorical way possible only in poetry. Sor Juana evidently meant that Kino was giving forth a greater light by his apostolic example, saying at the same time that his observations were enlightening. If this poem were only praising Kino the man, it would have been hyperbolic and idolatrous. (Here I am trying to convey the inner sense of the poem.) No pens of mortals could rise proud in Icarian fashion with rational discourses until yours, Eusebio, gave illumination to those heavenly lights. ![]() All dull and vile knowledge says - Sor Juana - came a standstill. It has a dramatic connotation, one which evokes the darkness that took place at the time of the crucifixion of Christ, with the lightning, thunder, and furious wind breaking through. This is what the poem is about: light and darkness. His was to be the cause of the poor and forsaken tribes of the northern deserts, even as Christ had given his life to enlighten the world, which was in darkness. "Sor Juana was well aware that more important than trivial scholarly disputes was the fact that Kino was not only giving light to the under standing of astronomy, but he was about to give his entire life in a stronger light to a better cause as a missionary. ![]() "Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, o, Las trampas de la fe"Įnglish translation by Margaret Sayers Peden was visited by and sought after by high officials, ladies of nobility, military men, homilists and illustrious travelers like Father Kino." was … the century of missionaries like Father Kino, mystics like Catherine Suárez, and ascetics like the Archbishop of Mexico, Francisco Aguiar y Seijas and Father Antonio Núñez de Miranda, Sor Juana's confessor. Sor Juana capped her praise by saying that the "heavenly lights received light' from Kino's learning. Her response was a sonnet (205) in which she places him, literally, above the comets, that is, in the incorruptible highest heavens. In it she refers to the Jesuit's writings on the Comet of 1680 that had excited Europe and the America.Īmong the few persons in Mexico to whom Father Kino sent his "Exposition" was Sor Juana. "Examining Sor Juana's library allows us to understand better her sonnet "in praise of the astronomical science" of Father Eusebio Kino.
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