Landscape
Landscape - meaning Summary
Stillness and Perceptual Scale
Paz's "Landscape" meditates on a stark, timeless scene where rock, precipice and falling water create a paradox of motion and stillness. The poem compresses geological immensity and human perception, presenting an immobile sun and perpetual water to suggest scales that both dwarf and mirror us. It ends by collapsing distance into relativity: the crags’ weight becomes comparable to our shadows, prompting vertigo about proportion and being in the world.
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