This poet wrote, "You may mock the hapless plight / or the creatures of your use" in a poem that describes figures "perverse, schooled to condemn… by witless laws." The line "’Tis dead, ’tis dust, ’tis shadow, yea, ’tis nought" concludes this poet's "To Her Portrait." In one poem, this poet discussed a figure "roused by her own precipitous fall" who "crowns herself with the globe's abandoned half" before noting, "the (*) world illuminated, / and I awake." This poet of "Arraignment of the Men" discussed the "pyramidal death-born shadow of earth" in a silva analyzed in Octavio Paz's The Traps of Faith. This poet condemned the Church for keeping women uneducated following criticism from the Bishop of Puebla in her "Reply to Sister Philotea." For 10 points, name this author of First Dream, a 17th-century Mexican nun. ■END■
ANSWER: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz [or Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz; or Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana]
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