Do you think Sor Juana’s polemic, which was written over three hundred years ago and addressed to a church official, has relevance for high school and college students today? Explain with specific evidence from “The Poet’s Response” and your own educational experience.
Length: two or more well developed paragraphs
Read Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, “The Poet’s Response to Sor Filotea de la Cruz,” pp. 240-56. (Before you begin reading Sor Juana’s “Response,” make sure you know the true identity of Sor Filotea, what Sor Juana is responding to and why).Sor Juana’s “The Poet’s Response,” like Douglass’ narrative, is a model of polemical writing. She carefully crafts her argument for her intended audience, the bishop, by manipulating persona, displaying a vast knowledge of theological as well as classical literature and recounting her own experiences both as a child and nun. She also responds to her detractors by couching her controversial critique of de Vieyra’s sermon in the context of civil liberties.
Do you think Sor Juana’s polemic, which was written over three hundred years ago and addressed to a church official, has relevance for high school and college students today? Explain with specific evidence from “The Poet’s Response” and your own educational experience.
Length: two or more well developed paragraphs
Read Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, “The Poet’s Response to Sor Filotea de la Cruz,” pp. 240-56. (Before you begin reading Sor Juana’s “Response,” make sure you know the true identity of Sor Filotea, what Sor Juana is responding to and why).
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