In his youth, Borges helped create the ultraist movement. Among his concerns in those poems of youth was to be Argentinean, to write like Argentineans, with Argentinean's dialect and vocabulary. I find his love poems particularly interesting because most of them show a different treatment and approach to literature. Maybe it doesn't matter. There are so many other things in the world.
Any instant is more profound And diverse than the sea.
And even if the hours are so long, An obscure wonder awaits us. Death, that other sea, that other arrow, That free us from sun, moon And love. The happiness you gave me And took away, must be erased. What was everything must turn into nothing. Now I only have the joy of being sad.