Far From The Native Crowd: Poetry Writing As Consolation In Pablo Neruda’s Isolation

Abstract

This paper makes a critical  study how poetry writing became a consolation for Pablo Nerudain hisisolationduring the  painful diasporic experiences in and outside of his own country. It discusses how Poetry Writing played the roles of a companion , an accompany and , to some extend a good Samaritan in the life and carrier of Pablo Neruda. It records the long struggle of  Neruda to overcome thepathetic conditions caused by his self imposed isolation and by his exile due to the diplomatic duties outside his nation. It gives an account of Neruda's encounter with poetry writing by which he attempted to cross the milestones of his melancholic memories from his childhood. It displays how Neruda filled the emptiness of his alienation, desperation and isolation with the help of his poetry.It justifies that Poetry, as a caring mother, looks after the pensive and the introverted personality of Neruda by providing him a sanctuary to get rid of his indifferent world of loneliness. And it deals with anidea of Nerudaof exploitingthe vast spaces of his secluded universe in order to create a world of poetry.