This dissertation aims to analyze Octavio Paz s reflection on poetry in the book The Bow and the Lyre. To accomplish this task we have briefly his life and work, taking special attention to the issue of the constant dialectic battle that balances in own source of thought and work of Octavio Paz. The passionate reconciliation of opposites that is at the core of all his work is this opposition, which at the same time is an instantaneous reconciliation this conflict, which is communion. We tried to demonstrate the characteristic trait that become manifest in the approximation of poetic expression and the critical thinking, evidenced in all his works.