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    Keith Crispin Author Interview Report: Octavio Paz Octavio Paz was a Mexican poet who is considered to be one of the greatest‚ from South America of the twentieth century. His love for poetry and literature as a whole started at a young age. It was thanks to his grandfather that he was immerged in literature‚ for he owned an immense library of six to seven thousand books which Paz had complete access to. He continued expanding his knowledge of poetry at the National Preparatory School and

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    (“Con los Ojos Cerrados”) by Octavio Paz Is love really blind or just an obsession in the mind? In the sonnet written by Kim Addonizio; titled “First Poem for You” and “With Eyes Closed” (“Con Los Ojos Cerrados”) written by Octavio Paz are similar to one another‚ as they describe their intense love for someone or something both created in darkness. However‚ both poems may describe different kinds of love. Love described by Addonizio as “terrifying” in Line 13‚ unlike Paz whom described his experience

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    How do Octavio Paz and Albert Camus convey their respective views on death? World Literature 1 22/08/2010 Many aspects of death are pondered and questioned throughout Octavio Paz ’s poems‚ the two I have chosen to particularly focus on are Plain and Near Cape Comorin. Albert Camus has also considered the aspect of death within his novel‚ The Outsider. The title‚ The Outsider is vital to the text‚ as it reflects many aspects of the author ’s life. David Simpson explained that ‘Camus lived most

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    Octavio Paz Paz was born March 31‚ 1914‚ in Mexico City‚ Mexico; died April 19‚ 1998‚ Mexico City‚ Mexico. Once considered himself a Marxist‚ but today Communists consider him a conservative because he said he rejected the "simplistic and simplifying ideologies of the left." He also angered the far right in his homeland‚ leaving him ostracized by both extremes. Octavio Paz was a poet‚ yet he was not a gentle man. His poetry and essays have been described as phosphorescent‚ political‚ passionate

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    Robert Frost’s "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"‚ William Wordsworth’s "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"‚ and Octavio Paz’s "The Street" share similar themes in that they all explore solitude and insightfulness. There is an interesting contrast within this group of poems‚ especially between the Frost and Wordsworth poems and Paz’s illustration. The first two poems are gentle and simple in their tone‚ whereas the last is quite solemn and worrisome. Frost and Wordsworth put positive connotations

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    Octavio Paz is Mexico’s greatest living poet. But let’s face it: that’s like saying William Carlos Williams was Paterson’s best writer. For Americans‚ a better way of indicating Paz’s importance will have to be found. Perhaps it would be more suggestive to say that in the universe of Latin American writing‚ Neruda’s poetry is solar: a lavish‚ Hispanic ful-mination--like a Tamayo watermelon--and Paz’s poetry lunar: a rarer‚ Gallic luminosity--like a Magritte moon--; or‚ to put it another way

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    boy wakes up to go for a walk outside‚ after not listening to the boardinghouse owner‚ and ended up going through a horrible experience. He transitioned from feeling safe in his little town‚ to feeling a sense of horror. In “The Blue Bouquet” by Octavio Paz‚ readers must realize that people go through lots of experiences in their life time‚ good or bad that transition them from innocence to experience‚ because it is part of human life and we have no control over the things that happen to us‚ which

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    “The Street”‚ by Octavio Paz A long and silent street. I walk in blackness and I stumble and fall and rise‚ and I walk blind‚ my feet stepping on silent stones and dry leaves. Someone behind me also stepping on stones‚ leaves: if I slow down‚ he slows; if I run‚ he runs‚ I turn: nobody. Everything dark and doorless. Turning and turning among these corners which lead forever to the street where nobody waits for‚ nobody follows me‚ where I pursue a man who stumbles and rises and says

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    Introduction Writer Octavio Paz Of Mexico‚ visited India in 1951 as an employee of the Mexican embassy‚ as Mexico tried to develop their relations with India after it gained independence in 1947. On receiving his transfer letter in Paris‚ where he was formerly employed‚ Paz gives us an insight in his essay that he was devastated to leave Paris. After an elaborately modern and intellectual description of Paris as a city that appealed the dream of the west‚ Octavio Paz insists that the news of his

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    The Blue Bouquet Have you even been in a situation when you have gone from total innocence to experience in a short period of time? In the short story “The Blue Bouquet” written by Octavio Paz‚ the main character starts off by waking up from a nap and going on a walk even after being warned not to by the owner of the boardinghouse. Whilst out the protagonist gets stopped in the middle of the night by another man with a knife who wanted something very unusual. It wasn’t money or jewelry; it was

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