This work presents and analyzes the close proximity between Poetry and History that becomes the basis and method of writing Octavio Paz s poetic essays. The poet treats history as a place of poetry. This mobilizes the methodical category that is common in historiographical work, into the realm of fiction. What will be the impact on the mobilization of poetry and its terrain as a method for writing history? Since history is always tensioned between fiction and truth, is the critical narrative about the past subjected to truth? If poetry is always insurgent to the truth, the resulting force is destructive and favorable in relation to History. If, on the one hand, the concatenation of forces that the multiple images of the past evoked by Paz allow a proximity to the past, on the other hand, a brief moment of lucidity deprives the truth of the centrality of the historiographical discourse and the performance of the essay allows a historiographical procedure that represent these images around a sense, no longer factual and teleological, but turned to the event and the multiple meanings that reality can have.