The poem "What can I use to keep you" expresses my loneliness and sadness. I hope someone can understand him, love him and hug him. This poem is a famous one in Borges' works. Both English and Chinese versions are amazing to read, and the feelings between the lines are profound and touching.
The obvious meaning at the beginning is that I can't keep you anything. The last few sentences are different from ordinary love poems and adopt negative images. Generally speaking, courtship should give flowers and other bright and pleasant things. However, the use of such an image here is more touching.
Introduction to the author of "What can I use to keep you"
Borges, an Argentine poet, novelist and essayist, is famous for his meaningful words and profound philosophy. Because of his family inheritance, he has created many works with amazing imagination since he was a child with amblyopia and blindness. He is the author of Biographies of Villains, Gardens with Divergent Paths and The Book of Sand.
1923 he published his first collection of poems, and 1935 published his first collection of short stories, which established his position in the Argentine literary world. He was the director of the National Library of Argentina and a professor of philosophy and literature at the University of Buenos Aires. The writer Borges 1977 to 1985 lived in the Sixth Art Street in Paris 13.