| Summary: | This article examines the importance of William Wordsworth’s The prelude for the composition of Octavio Paz’s Pasado en claro. It approaches the two autobiographical poems in relation to the linguistic theories of each author. In more concrete terms, it analyces the diverse effects, on the one hand, of thedoctrine of association and synesthesia for Wordsworth’s poem and, on the other, of the influence of structuralism and its off-shoots on Paz’s poem. Constant reference to, and contrast with William Wordsworth helps usto see Paz’s poetical autobiographies as a point of convergence and divergence between the individual and the political, the intimate and the historical.
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