Ruben Dario (9/29/08)

Ruben Dario wants to let go of the present. He finds it anachronistic. His liberal views and thinking is making him want to leave what is stale behind. He wants to break with what is traditional. He finds a “lack of mental elevation”, the works of the New Americans still vain, and he questions his grandfather’s choice of authors, the rhythm of the poetry, and even his wife as he is more interested in his lover. Dario desires to preserve his writing as unique to him. I think that he does not respect any kind of imitation as imitation of his work by someone else would make that work less of the person’s “personal treasure.” I think that Dario, although he has in his own words, “the hand of Marquis” wants to extract himself from the upper class writing and current literature. He is not inspired by it and he does not want to move forward. He would rather search in the literature of the past for inspiration instead of in the literature and ideas of the present times.