Wind and water and stone | Octavio Paz

Summary: Wind and water and stone by Octavio Paz is a poem about how a people stays the same but is yet different as time goes on using his native land as a backdrop

Characters:

Speaker - tells the audience about what it means to be "wind and water and stone" in his native Mexico

Stanza 1:

• The speaker tells about the hollowed stone, dispersal of water and the stoppage of the wind to create his trio of subject matter

Stanza 2:

• The speaker tells more about the "stone and wind and water" by telling us about how the wind affects the stone and how the stone becomes a cup for water and how the water is the wind

Stanza 3:

• The speaker explains that the wind sings, and the water "murmurs" and how "quiet" the stone is in its motionless existence
• The speaker explains the sounds of the water, wind and stone

Stanza 4:

• Culture is similar and yet different; speaker:"One is the other, and is neither"
• Names are but vessels to pour culture and then they "disappear"
• This is an important part of the "water and stone and wind"

Other Notes:

• Octavio Paz is a Mexican Poet who uses personal life to mold his writing and has been to many places in the world

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