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The Other or Another Wrinkled Self?

 
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二品总督
(刚入二品,小心做人)
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帖子发表于: 星期六 六月 07, 2008 8:34 am    发表主题: The Other or Another Wrinkled Self? 引用并回复

Poem of the Week

The Other or Another Wrinkled Self?


The Other by Octavio Paz

He invented a face for himself.
gggggggggggggggggggggggBehind
it,
he lived died and resurrected
many times.
gggggggggHis face now
has the wrinkles from the face.
His wrinkles have no face.


Reflection:

The concept of the other has gained its significant role in social and literary theories. Who is the other? What is the other? How can we know the other? What do we respond to the other? Octavio Paz’s The Other layers a series of masks, one upon the other, in such a way that the other, the title of the poem, is hidden from the reader completely. What we can see, revealed in the concluding line, is the wrinkles of the other, but they are wrinkles that have no face.

Note:

Thank Christine for posting this well-crafted and thought-provocative poem. My interpretation of this poem is benefited from Roger Moore's course material about a deeper exploration of the texts of Octavio Paz's poetry.
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二品总督
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帖子发表于: 星期六 六月 07, 2008 8:43 am    发表主题: 引用并回复

Octavio Paz once said: "The language that nourishes the poem is, after all, nothing but history, name of this or that, reference and meaning....Without history -- without men, who are the origin, the substance and the end of history -- the poem could not be born or incarnated, and without the poem there could be no history either, because there would be no origin or beginning."

He invented a face for "the Other," travelling deep into the history of "othering."
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帖子发表于: 星期六 六月 07, 2008 1:40 pm    发表主题: Re: The Other or Another Wrinkled Self? 引用并回复

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Poem of the Week

The Other or Another Wrinkled Self?


The concept of the other has gained its significant role in social and literary theories. Who is the other? What is the other?


Interesting title. Is this a hint of a deeper exploration of Paz's poem? The other is another wrinkled self or shadow self in Jungian term.
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帖子发表于: 星期六 六月 07, 2008 2:17 pm    发表主题: Re: The Other or Another Wrinkled Self? 引用并回复

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Is this a hint of a deeper exploration of Paz's poem? The other is another wrinkled self or shadow self in Jungian term.


Good point.

I like his imaginative use of conceits, especially metaphysical conceits.
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Interesting title. Is this a hint of a deeper exploration of Paz's poem? The other is another wrinkled self or shadow self in Jungian term.


Yes, you grasp one of the key points of my piece.

Thanks for the comment.

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I like his imaginative use of conceits, especially metaphysical conceits.


Yes, the use of conceits is part of the Spanish poetic tradition.
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帖子发表于: 星期日 六月 08, 2008 12:37 pm    发表主题: Re: The Other or Another Wrinkled Self? 引用并回复

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Interesting title. Is this a hint of a deeper exploration of Paz's poem? The other is another wrinkled self or shadow self in Jungian term.


Yes, you grasp one of the key points of my piece.



Don't forget that behind these wrinkles is an invented face (line 1) behind which the other lives dies and are resuscitated many times (lines 4-5).
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二品总督<BR>(刚入二品,小心做人)


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帖子发表于: 星期日 六月 08, 2008 8:19 pm    发表主题: Re: The Other or Another Wrinkled Self? 引用并回复

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Don't forget that behind these wrinkles is an invented face (line 1) behind which the other lives dies and are resuscitated many times (lines 4-5).


Well said.

At this point of our discussion, we must ask one key question: did the face invent itself? Or did the individual, meaning the owner of the face, invent for himself a face? The answer to this challenging question may lead us to the hard fact that the other is not an other but a series of others (lines 4-5), all of whom have lived behind a face (lines 2-3).
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