A glimpse to India: Kāvya poems and Octavio Paz

Abstract

From a new attention to language and other facets that are not,
perhaps, the most addressed of Octavio Paz's work; this essay aims
to address the relationship that the Mexican poet could establish
with the kāvya poems. In this way, we start from the fundamental
idea that the literary fact is always diverse and expanding, breaking
with the statism that certain nationalist and static conceptions
want to bring to it It is never based, thus, only on one type of
style or culture, but is continually nourished by several, in continuous
learning and growth. We will therefore try to see — from
the analysis of concrete texts in this linguistic exchange, through
the technique of close reading — how this poetry influences the
Mexican writer, which, although it may seem distant, contributes
to the development of Octavio Paz's style as we now know it.