Description
This study is the first complete verse analysis of the Mexican Nobel laureate’s poem, a work designed in highly figurative language to present the philosophy of India’s equally metaphoric Yoga. The analysis explains essentials illustrated in the poem for achieving nirvana and avoiding repeated reincarnation. For example, sakti is the feminine energy which creates mind, the body, and the world, three illusions of the feminine force who is in essence silent nirvana but sound and turmoil when, as maya, she creates the world (samsara). Sakti, personified in woman, appears to be the link in Paz’s well-known triad of sexual love, the alien but fascinating “other,” and language, subjects in numerous poems, essays, and in “Blanco.” This yogic poem stresses that sakti’s creation of mind as manifested in language (sound) must be withdrawn from phenomena, spiritualized, and directed to its nirvanic origin of silence. This book should appeal to those interested in Latin American literature, Asian thought, and the Eastern content in much of Paz’s writings.
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