Ancestros y erotismo en Octavio Paz: Análisis retórico de dos poemas de Semillas para un himno

• Autor: Zevallos, Johnny
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2020
• Institución: Academia Peruana de la Lengua
• Repositorio: Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.revistas.apl.org.pe:article/297
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.apl.org.pe/index.php/boletinapl/article/view/297
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: poetry; Mesoamerica; Nahuatl; Asian culture; metaphors; poesía; Mesoamérica; náhuatl; cultura asiática; metáforas

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.