First Dream (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana
- First Published: 1692
- Type of Work: Meditation
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: Dreams, Human race, Seventeenth century, Christianity, Faith, Catholics or Catholic Church, Mexico or Mexicans, Life, philosophy of, Spain or Spanish people, Nuns, Sleep, Soul
The Poem
“First Dream” (it has also been translated as “Primero Sueño,” its original title) is a long narrative poem about knowledge and the act of knowing. It is written in the classical style known as the dream poem. The poem is actually the narrative of a dream, in which fantastical images are described as if from within the subconscious. The device of the dream allows the poet certain license with controversial ideas, because dreams are not expected to be “correct.”
Although Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz was born in Mexico, her writing is influenced by...
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