Remember that a sonnet is a 14-line poem. The two poems under study here, Sonnets 27 and 28, by Sor. Juana Ines de la Cruz rely on the Italian form, that is to say that they are structured by using an octet followed by a sestet. Some of you may be wondering why these two sonnets don't use iambic pentametre... remember, I said that this metre is the usual one, not the only one.
What is either poem discussing?
For the first sonnet...Vanity, false pride and flattery is the theme of the day, whereas the inevitability of growing old as well as dying -and- there isn't a thing that you can do to stop this natural process is the theme of the second.
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