Same Time (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Octavio Paz
- First Published: 1962
- Type of Work: Meditation
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: Language or languages, Philosophy or philosophers, Poetry or poets, Writing, Beauty, City life, Mexico or Mexicans, Time, Cities or towns, Clouds, Summer, Night, Crowds
The Poem
“Same Time” is a long poem of 184 lines in free verse. Its format represents a break with Octavio Paz’s early practice; under the influence of Stéphane Mallarmé, he had begun to think of a poem as a visual object. Accordingly, he emphasized white space through the use of short lines, occasionally allowing a single word to suffice for the line. Except for question marks, the poem has no punctuation. The title introduces one of the poem’s chief themes: time’s movement in relation to the individual and to poetry.
The first-person narrator inhabits a...
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