ANCESTORS AND EROTICISM IN OCTAVIO PAZ: RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF TWO POEMS SEMILLAS PARA UN HIMNO (SEEDS for A HYMN)

Zevallos J. · Boletin de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua (2020) · DOI: 10.46744/bapl.202001.001

Resumen

Octavio Paz’s poetic work fuses the Mesoamerican tradition prior to the European Conquest, with the Asian culture –especially Indian, Chinese and Japanese. Therefore, it’s a valuable contribution to the convergence of those voices that, despite continental distances, reflect a certain similarity in the mythical and erotic constructions of poetic discourse. The Mexican author knew how to find a poetic universe that captures both cultures’ traditions, although without merging them, which constitutes an approach to two apparently dissimilar cultures in order to find the foundational sources of the Nahuatl and Chinese worlds. To analyze this proposal we focus, on one hand, on Arduini’s rhetorical and discoursive theory, regarding the rhetorical use of traditional literary figures, and, on the other hand, Lakoff and Johnson’s proposal for everyday metaphors.

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos