Octavio Paz

Village

Village - meaning Summary

Time and Stony Silence

This short poem presents a stark meditation on time and desolation. Natural elements are personified as layers of history: stones and trees embody time, the wind carries centuries, and people themselves are likened to stone. The wind’s circular motion and the declaration "There is no water here" intensify a sense of arrested life and drought—emotional and physical. The result is an image of a place where temporal depth has calcified vitality into silence.

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The stones are time The wind, centuries of wind The trees are time the people are stone The wind turns upon itself and sinks into the stone day There is no water here for all the luster of its eyes

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