The whole poem begins with the epic questioning of "The Epic of Gilgamesh" and ends with the solidified image of "a white cloud hanging in the oil painting", forming a closed loop of existential questioning.
After Kazakhstan declared its independence, the Kazakhstani government started the process of constructing its national identity by making attempts to revitalize the Kazakh language and culture.
When I was reading a book in a bookstore in 1992, I came across the words of a foreign critic: "O. Paz's poetry starts from the end of P. Neruda's poetry."