Octavio Paz

Where Without Whome

Where Without Whome - meaning Summary

Solitude and Dislocation

A brief, stark meditation on isolation and self-displacement. The speaker confronts an empty landscape—no other lives among the trees—and then admits a more unsettling absence: not knowing where they themselves have gone. The poem compresses physical emptiness and internal unmooring into two short images, leaving the reader with a sense of existential solitude and fragmented identity rather than narrative explanation.

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There is not a single soul among the trees. And I don't know where I've gone.

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