Two Bodies
Two Bodies - meaning Summary
Intimacy as Shifting Metaphors
Paz’s poem presents a compact meditation on intimacy and its changing states. Two bodies facing one another become a series of metaphors—waves, stones, roots, knives, falling stars—each image reshaping the surrounding night into ocean, desert, tangle, spark, or emptiness. The poem suggests that relationships continuously transform both partners and their shared world, shifting between union, hardness, entwinement, violence, and dissolution.
Read Complete AnalysesTwo bodies face to face are at times two waves and night is an ocean. Two bodies face to face are at times two stones and night a desert. Two bodies face to face are at times two roots laced into night. Two bodies face to face are at times two knives and night strikes sparks. Two bodies face to face are two stars falling in an empty sky.
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