Incapable of paying his family's enormous debts, Silva accepted a diplomatic post in Caracas.
His marble statues Poetry and The Silence are dedicated to the Colombian poet José Asunción Silva.
De Onís argues that Carrasquilla's work passed unknown in Colombia and abroad at the time because he lived during two different periods of Latin American literature: Costumbrismo and Romanticism, that had representatives like José Asunción Silva in Colombia, and the coming of Modernism as a reaction against Costumbrismo.
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