Orografía, mito y transgresión en Primero Sueño de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Abstract

In this paper, we study the orography of the mental landscape that the Mexican poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz presents in her poem Primero sueño (First dream). We propose a review that starts from verses 310-326, in which the soul is placed on a high mountain, whose hyperbolic height is compared to other mountains. We analyze the mythographic tradition that supports the presence of the three elements of comparison, which are related to Greco-Latin mythology, Atlas, Olympus and a volcano, which we show must be Mount Etna. We establish the links with elements that acquire a symbolic meaning in the poem: the triads, verticality, transgression and the desire to know. The discussion with the previous comments and studies on this passage completes our contribution.

Keywords

• orography
• myth
• transgression
• sor juana inés de la cruz
• first dream