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“I believe that poetry is an action, ephemeral or solemn, in which there enter as equal partners solitude and solidarity, emotion and action, the nearness to oneself, the nearness to mankind and to the secret manifestations of nature. And no less strongly I think that all this is sustained - man and his shadow, man and his conduct, man and his poetry - by an ever-wider sense of community, by an effort which will for ever bring together the reality and the dreams in us because it is precisely in this way that poetry unites and mingles them.”    

    What a powerful statement and no wonder that I cannot help but be moved deeply by the poetry of this passionate man! NeRue's Noble lecture did much to Clarify for me the work of this amazing poet. Although I Speaks very little about historical metodología, and Clearly states That He Wishes to "Avoid Giving Any advice on mode or style Which Might Give the new poets events supposed to drop of insight," this lecture does much to position historical motivation for His Work and What He views the function of poetry to be. Through this speech we find That He writes poetry historical Simply Not for Himself, But for everyone, Not just for the elite That Can Understand vague and veiled metaphors Allusions But For Those Who Have Never Spent a single moment in academic circles. For him, poetry is not a thing, it is an action, an expression of experience and self, emotions and connections with the world aroundus. It acts not simply to inform but to unite, people, communities, and nations under the knowledge of shared experience. It is for this reason, that his poetry has touched and continues to touch the lives of those who are exposed to it.

    It is appropriate then, that unlike Gabriela Mistral, the banquet speech of Pablo Neruda does more than humbly extoll the virtue and kindness of his foreign benefactors. In fact, he spends little time thanking those academics who are awarding him with the honour of a Noble Prize, and instead focuses on the thanks he owes to all of those people, things, and events which have inspired his work. He paints himself as a representative of his country and continent, of the joys and sadnesses of his life, a life tha