Octavio Paz

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Echoes of Self and Place

The speaker describes footsteps that echo between two interlocking streets, creating a mirrored, looped perception of movement. The poem ties sound and place to questions of presence: the self is doubled and displaced across streets that reflect one another. In the final line the mist becomes the only tangible element, suggesting that concrete reality slips away into atmosphere and uncertainty, leaving sensation and ambiguity as the poem's anchors.

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My steps along this street resound in another street in which I hear my steps passing along this street in which Only the mist is real

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