I chose to read a book called Three Women Poets, these poems were selected and translated by Frank J. Warnke. the book chose three authors, and Italian poet named Gasapara Stampa, a French poet named Louise Labe, and a Mexican poet named Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. All three authors come from two successful ages in poetry otherwise known as the Renaissance and the Baroque.
Louise's poetry is known to be "strait forward" but the effectiveness of strait forwardness and the direct emotions has made her an accomplished rhetorician and self conscious writer. She is a poetic master of Petrarch, in a conventional sense. Louise's influence is inspirational, subtle and intellectual. Her poems written earlier in the book are very similar to the complex art of Sceve, and the work is "entirely free of Platonism." Even though that some of her poems were similar to poems of sceve, I found there to be many poems similar to other french poets.
The use of art in Gasapara's poetry is one of the common themes in her poems. the turmoil of sexual love in her poetry is brought through the variety and inconsistency. In many of her poems throughout this book Gasapara is able to take great, complex, lyrical poems and modify them in such a way that was expressive of a female situation and sensibility.
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz was a true Baroque poet who was classified as hyperbole. Her poems involve many qualities such as, philosophical profundity and complexity, psychological astuteness (relations to sexes), and mystery of ornate decoration, paradox and irony, wordplay, conceit, hyperbole, general extravagance of language, dramatic immediacy, and "wit" (playfulness to cosmic perception or resemblances among the apparently dis familiar. In her poems "Este qoe ves, engano colorido" or Rosa divina que en gentil cultura" she was able to use a poetic characterisic otherwise known as range which also contradict and limit the of human knowledge, for example in her poem "acusa la hidropesia de mucha ciencia."
All of the poems in this book I found to be very emotional and have very similar ties between the three authors. Even though Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz was from a different era of accomplished poetry I found there to be many similarities between the two renaissance writers, Louise and Gasapara. The themes tensions and motifs of each and every poem written by the writer seemed to be about love, hatred, inequality, betrayal, beauty and life. Sometime while I was reading the translations of their poetry I found my self thinking of the Bluebeard poems in the beginning of the semester which dealt with the issue of betrayal, love, life and death. The three author sprouted in a time of purity, love, and life so I didn't see much betrayal or death. At the end of reading these types of poems I wasn't left with any unanswered questions or conclusions. However, I did find that I was able to relate myself to many of these poems and at times I found that to be very comforting.