Clear Night (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Octavio Paz
- First Published: 1962
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: France or French people, Love or romance, Surrealism, Authors or writers, Poetry or poets, Paris, City life, London, Time, Cities or towns, Autumn
The Poem
“Clear Night” is a long poem of 141 lines in free verse. It is divided into seven stanzas of varying length. The poem is dedicated to André Breton and Benjamin Péret, two influential Surrealist poets with whom Octavio Paz became associated in the 1940’s while he lived in Paris. From the opening two stanzas, one is led to believe that the three characters in the poem correspond directly to Paz, Breton, and Péret, and the rest of the lyric confirms this belief. The poet uses the first person with no suggestion of artifice; that is, one can safely assume that the...
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