Green Enravishment of Human Life (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana
- First Published: 1690
- Type of Work: Sonnet
- Genres: Poetry, Sonnet
- Subjects: Dreams, Hope, Mental illness, Imagination, Life and death, Rationalism, Spring
The Poem
“Green enravishment of human life” is a sonnet of the Italian or Petrarchan type. It consists of an octave (eight lines rhyming abbaabba) and a sestet (six lines rhyming cdecde). The sonnet lacks a title; it is identified by its first line. The octave is mainly descriptive of the theme of the poem: hope. The speaker of the poem emerges in the sestet. After describing the attitude of those who, hoping for change, ignore or distort reality, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz expresses her own positivist attitude about the world.
Sor Juana spent several...
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