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Pablo Neruda as the place-maker: an ecocritical enquiry of 'place' in Neruda's selected poems
Khosravi, G. D1, Vengadasamy, R2, Raihanah, M.M3.
Throughout the more than 50 years of Pablo Neruda’s poetic career, natural places were a
fundamental component of his poetry. Neruda was a major 20th century Latin American
and Nobel Prize winning poet who was famous as a political poet. This paper examines
the concept of ‘place’ in Neruda’s selected poems to reveal his experiences and emotions
connected to specific places. ‘Place’ is an essential component of ecopoetry. In this paper,
we utilise the conceptual framework of ecopoetry, which is a sub-theory of ecocriticism.
Ecopoetry is a genre of poetry that explores how human beings are connected to their habitat
or home, how ‘home’ is defined and built, and how a sense of ‘place’ is invoked. In this
paper, we scrutinise the relationship between man and place (nature) with an emphasis on
ecological awareness. Therefore, the paper will illustrate how the environment is closely
associated with the concept of place. Based on the evidence presented, we propose that
Neruda was very much an ecopoet and a ‘place maker’. Through his poetry, he establishes
his poetic goal to achieve ‘topophilia’ or love of places by illustrating that the knowledge
of spiritual belonging is the result of the knowledge of one’s physical roots.
Affiliation:
- Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
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