This work begins and ends with a list of aquatic images that (*) "come full circle, forever arriving", introducing the cyclic nature of the poem.
Towards the end of this work, victimization is personified by "Socrates in chains", "Montezuma in the bed of thorns", and "Lincoln exiting the theatre", among other historical references. Furthermore, critics cite the mention of Melusine as an allusion to André Breton, a fellow surrealist. The speaker frequently addresses a woman, stating "I go by your body for the world... you're a city that besieges the sea" and presumably kisses that same woman during the 1937 bombing of Madrid, detailed later in the poem. This work begins and ends with a list of aquatic images that (*) "come full circle, forever arriving", introducing the cyclic nature of the poem. Composed of 584 lines of hendecasyllabic verse, its structure mimics the revolution of the titular "solar rock", Venus. A man searches for love and identity amidst the limits of society and time, in for 10 points, what long poem by Mexican Nobel laureate Octavio Paz?
Towards the end of this work, victimization is personified by "Socrates in chains", "Montezuma in the bed of thorns", and "Lincoln exiting the theatre", among other historical references.
“The {Sun Stone}” or “{Piedra} de {sol}”