Light Is Like Water Analysis

Latin American literature has many different variations of tone; three types of tone that can be found are depression, dark tones, and frustration. The author’s tone of depression can relate to the oppression and loss of hope due to societies beliefs at the time. Depression can be shown through the short story “Light is Like Water” and the poem “Poet’s Epitaph”. The author details his or her work within these stories in a way that allows the reader to feel some of their sorrow. Ominous tones usually associate with the grim truth about society in the author’s writing. Examples of these tones can be found in the poems “Savoir Faire” and “Nocturnal Visits”. Ominous tones can uncover the meaning of what the author truly thinks about society or a reflection of themselves. Tones that convey frustration can reveal the struggles people had to go …show more content…
The author begins to grow impatient and restless in their writing, leaving the reader feeling the same way. This is shown in poem “We Are Many” by Pablo Neruda, in this poem the author alternates between becoming one person to becoming various types of people. “Of many men whom I am, whom we are, I cannot settle on a single one.”(Neruda, 345). The author talks about how he can’t just be one person, he believes he is many people packed into one body. This can hint to how his personality might be scattered, not just one variety. The same can be said for the essay “Five Days in Brasilia” by Clarice Lispector, here the author seems to be also struggling with a mental disability. “Even my insomnia might have created this piece of never-never land.”( Lispector, 331). She explains how she feels she can’t escape from reality. This explains how frustrated she feels at herself for having this disability, not being able to sleep and escape peacefully into their dreamlands, while she has to stay awake and face the hard