El Siglo De Oro Essay

The Enlightenment has always been explained as an age of reason. During the Enlightenment, goods and ideas were exchanged throughout the world. This led to a cultural golden age, in which new ideas were discovered. One of the newest forms of narrative that came out of the Enlightenment were the travelogues. Poetry began to move from emotional appeal towards reason during the Enlightenment as well. “El Siglo de Oro” is known as the Golden Age of Spain and it’s clear through Sor Juana’s poems that writing moved towards reason. During this period in history, travelogues and poetry were used to express new cultural ideas and move them from an appeal of the heart to an appeal of the brain. Travelogues were used in order to share the experience of people who travelled the world. Nowadays sharing the experiences of travelling is easy, with the invention of the internet and the emergence of social media. People all over the world can learn via pictures and videos what anywhere in the world looks like at any point in time. During the Enlightenment, instead of being able to visually show through pictures and videos, travelers have to paint pictures with their words. They had to take their experience and put it down on a page in such a way that people reading it, even centuries later, would be able to visualize …show more content…
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