Dead (“Remorse For Any Death”)
“Remorse For Any Death” explicates the boundless abstraction that is inherent in dead people. Even though the dead are no longer existing, their demise initiates feelings of guilt among the living. The memories that the living have about the dead are immeasurable, that is why death does not mark an unqualified end.
“Dawn and Sunset” (“Art of Poetry”)
“Dawn and Sunset” are symbols for the immortality of poetry. Poetry is an art that goes beyond the corporeal death; thus it cannot outlive its expediency. The useful life of poetry last to perpetuity; hence poems will be composed by generations that are yet to be born as long as there is “dawn and sunset.”
Paradise (“Adam Cast Forth”)
Paradise motif that is predominant in Biblical verses where it connotes Heaven. Paradise, here, entails the imagery of utopia that is divergent to the world where sin predominates. Borges's speaker wishes for a single day at the “living Garden” as it is free from discord and wickedness. The speaker’s wish implies that he/she has faith about the actuality of heaven.
