Throughout the entirety of Rhetoric of Tears she is feeling the pain of love that she mentions in the beginning of the other poem. She uses the imagery of heat in her last two stanzas, which could symbolize her simultaneous passion and anguish that she experiences at the hand of the person of whom she writes. In line 14 she says “My molten heart caught up between thy hands.” This means that she has offered her passion to this person, she has given herself up to them, and she has made herself vulnerable to them (Sor Juana
Throughout the entirety of Rhetoric of Tears she is feeling the pain of love that she mentions in the beginning of the other poem. She uses the imagery of heat in her last two stanzas, which could symbolize her simultaneous passion and anguish that she experiences at the hand of the person of whom she writes. In line 14 she says “My molten heart caught up between thy hands.” This means that she has offered her passion to this person, she has given herself up to them, and she has made herself vulnerable to them (Sor Juana