Latin America, By Jorge Luis Borges

Latin America A dark and melodramatic author named Edgar Allan Poe once said in one of his poems, “I became sane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.” This quote from “The Raven” couriers the deep dark meaning to his own life. The author, Jorge Luis Borges, also uses dark lines to express his own life situations. Dark themes are shown throughout Latin American literature to tell a story of the author’s point in life, it also is in need of more time, therefore time was clear throughout human history. Latin American writing is expressed through time, blindness, and death, around the regions of Argentina, Chile, and Mexico, to display an allusion to darkness. Dark themes are unswerving throughout the works. Latin American works have a reference

The character explains that a Greek philosopher tore out his eyes, but over time the character will lose his eyes by the hours delayed and also, due to going blind. Time is also used to get a response from the readers. In the poem “Too Many Names,” the author uses time as an emotional response mechanism, “Time cannot be cut with your weary scissors,” (Neruda 347). This seems to put a stress on weary scissors as a dark reference to losing time. Latin American literature writers used many devices to create references to time. Time was not only shown through diction in the last two quotes but in the poem “Small Variations” by Octavio Paz, time was shown through auditory imagery, “Syllables unearthed make sound without sound: And at the hour of our death, amen,” (Paz 343). The indication of “hour” through “sound without sound” just makes it darker when death is a concept in that hour. The time can be dark, although it is time that ruins a man or woman’s eye

Death is a dark theme because there is loss and sorrow behind what is said. The narrator in the short story “The Curricular Ruins” makes the death of the gods a depressing feeling just by adding a loaded word. “The propitious temple downstream which had once belonged to gods now burned and dead,” (Borges 335), “Burned” in this phrase makes the word “death” seem more painful in a dark theme. These phrases throughout the story are used to create the overall theme of darkness. By creating dark themes, authors have correctly engaged readers all over the