El otro tigre
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"El otro tigre" is a short poem by Jorge Luis Borges that meditates on the tension between the real, physical tiger and its imagined, literary counterpart.
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| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| El otro tigre canonical | 1 |
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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poem ⓘ |
| author | Jorge Luis Borges NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Argentina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | Jorge Luis Borges NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
lyric poetry
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philosophical poem ⓘ |
| hasConcept |
gap between experience and description
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inaccessibility of the real through language ⓘ ontological difference between reality and fiction ⓘ |
| hasForm | short poem ⓘ |
| hasImagery |
jungle
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tiger ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | self‑conscious about its own fictionality ⓘ |
| hasReception | considered an important example of Borges’s poetic thought ⓘ |
| hasSubjectMatter | a poet imagining a tiger ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Borges’s interest in metaphysics
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Borges’s reflections on language and reality ⓘ |
| language | Spanish ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
modernism
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postmodern literature ⓘ |
| literaryStyle |
concise
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philosophical ⓘ reflective ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
a real tiger
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an imagined literary tiger ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
difference between real objects and their literary representations
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limits of language ⓘ nature of literary creation ⓘ tension between reality and imagination ⓘ |
| narrativeVoice | first person ⓘ |
| partOf | Jorge Luis Borges’s poetic oeuvre ⓘ |
| topic |
metafiction
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relationship between word and thing ⓘ representation of reality in art ⓘ self‑referential literature ⓘ |
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