They will try to put obstacles on our paths to dissuade us. People will call it a foolish idea and turn against us. But we have to undertake it because it might be the only possible way to achieve what we want. Many times in life we have to make decisions which are not favorably looked at by the people around us. This is what he meant by the words “the solitude, the danger, the silence, and the urgency of my mission”. There is an age old belief that when one is in a desperate situation everything starts going wrong, people start deserting him, and the person starts feeling hard pressed to keep on going, if for nothing else, at least for the sake of his mission. And the atmosphere grew increasing hostile. New obstacles kept appearing at every possible turn. But he ploughed on ‘blindly seeking the quarter in which my own liberty lay’. He had to overcome obstacles like the huge trees, impassable rivers, immense cliffs and desolate expanses of snow. Hence, he didn’t have anyone or anything to guide him on this untrodden path. Neruda had embarked on a journey that very few people may have ever undertaken. The journey to leave Chile was as contrasting as it can be to the status that he has reached now. These very words signal the readers to the nature of discussion that Neruda is going to undertake. But now that he is not attached to that land, he can describe it more explicitly. Back then he might not have realized these characteristics about Chile. Neruda starts his speech describing his birthplace as distant and antipodean. He reflects back on his role as a poet, about his achievements by being a poet. The second is when he is now an established persona. At the time, he was just like any other ‘ordinary man’ untouched by fame and unaware of his skills with verses. One was when he had to leave his homeland, long before he had become who he is now. Through this speech, he illustrates two critical phases of his life. This is the speech he gave upon winning the Nobel Prize. As a poet, he has influenced generations of writers. 3) Towards the Splendid City Pablo Neruda won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971.
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