The Aesthetics of Evanescence in the Poetry of Octavio Paz

  • Sandra Lucía Díaz Gamboa
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_ALHI.2013.v42.43673
Keywords: verbal seeds, Firstness, zero, infinite, vanishing, form, nothingness, white, silence, indefiniteness, transparence.

Abstract

We create the aesthetics of evanescence as opposed to what Peirce calls Firstness and to the concept of "infiniversion" that we have discovered in modern poetics. In Octavio Paz's poems, specially "Latera Este" and "Árbol adentro" we recognize features of this aesthetics, such as: dispersion, elementariness, otherness, impermanence, contradiction, emptiness, etc. And we link the symbols of mirror and the abyss to this same aesthetics.

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Published
2013-12-09
How to Cite
Díaz Gamboa S. L. (2013). The Aesthetics of Evanescence in the Poetry of Octavio Paz. Anales de Literatura Hispanoamericana, 42, 379-396. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_ALHI.2013.v42.43673
Issue
Vol. 42 (2013): Redes intelectuales argentino-latinoamericanas: los universos letrado y popular en la primera mitad del siglo XX
Section
Young Criticism

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