Parallelism In Mexican Poetry Essay

Today, it is common to see depression and hard times in everyday life in every continent on the planet. Just like today, Mexican authors of the past noticed the same saddening fact of depression in their everyday lives. To convey their feelings on depression’s prominent factor in everyday Mexican life, Mexican authors wrote poems and other short stories to help them convey these feelings. Mexican authors used literary devices of loaded words, imagery, and parallelism to advance the themes of social realism, hard times in the life of a faithful person, being held back, and the end of all, in Latin American Literature. Loaded words were used to help advance the theme of hard times in the life of a faithful person in social realism. In the poem …show more content…
Octavio Paz uses parallelism to manipulate words in his poems. “If I slow down, he slows; / if I run, he runs. I turn: nobody” (Paz 343). One translation of this line is that this character is near death and he has nobody to be with there with him as he draws closer to his last breath. The author also uses parallelism to effect another aspect of literature. Paz also uses parallelism to focus on the big details in his poems rather than the little ones. “And as I say this/ the world breaks down in my blood…/ And as I say it, the instant” (Paz 344). The author goes on to say that hard times have lost their hold on this character’s life because he has died. Paz uses parallelism in many ways to have different effects in his writings. He also uses parallelism as a dramatic element to help draw attention to specific important words. “With him the world begins, / with him it ends” (Paz 344). The parallelism in this line draws a straight line to the words “begins” and “ends.” The quote is saying that even though this character has died they will live on in a better place. Paz uses parallelism in a very dramatic and specific way to help advance the theme of the end of all in social