Octavio Paz and Pablo Neruda: A Study of Appropriation’s Phenomenon and Break of Style

Abstract

This study focuses to explain how Pablo Neruda has been shaping an appropriation and break of a style processes in the initial poetry of Octavio Paz. For this, the concept of style will be placed in the arena of literary study; due to, most modern development of speech analysis techniques, the appreciation of this concept’s essence has drastically mutated. Therefore, it will be appreciated what happens to an intellectual dialog among both poets; for an artistic and discordance ways of learning as construction project: the youngest poet firmly follows the steps of his preceptor, engaging literary, connecting motives and procedures to his first poems, nevertheless he must overcome that influence to display an original identity in a competitive literary field. With this, it will be highlighted that the concept of ‘style’ is not only a sum of techniques that certain writer imitates or connects into his own work; otherwise, this literary element is built by other factors included in the writer’s historical and cultural era.