Mujeres comunes nahuas, ciclo de vida

Abstract

The poetry stimulates the imagination; is creation act of imaginary worlds without rules of credibility, or perception of reality, laws are suspended by the reader in the act of reading - invited by poetical faith to penetrate this universe-. It’s possible to establish interaction between an author and a reader, by a poetical element and artistic perception, moments of major value for the poem. Texts of nahuatl lyric poetry (cuicatl, “singings”, “poems”, and huehuetlatolli, “advice”), from before the conquest of the Mexico valley, are identified and analyzed on the basis of stylistic resources that help to reconstruct a life cycle of an ordinary woman. In this case, the expressive modalities of literary production are understood in social and cultural context. Through these lines, we will search the sense of poems and advice that gave sense to a stage of México’s history. The present text is an analytical exercise of a literary manifestation that still guards many secrets for discovering: the literature nahuatl.