Octavio Paz

Touch

Touch - meaning Summary

Touch as Creative Transformation

The poem explores physical and erotic intimacy as an act of creative transformation. The speaker’s hands both reveal and reconfigure the beloved, layering nudity while simultaneously inventing a new "body" out of touch. Touch here is shown as generative: it uncovers, clothes, and composes identity, collapsing boundaries between self and other and suggesting that contact produces new forms of being rather than merely exposing what already exists.

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My hands open the curtains of your being clothe you in a further nudity uncover the bodies of your body My hands invent another body for your body

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