THE INIMITABLE BLEND OF POETICS AND POLITICS: READING NARENDRA MODI AND PABLO NERUDA AS THE POETS OF PEOPLE

Abstract

This research explores and contributes to knowledge pool of poetry and polity in the creative literary work of Narendra Modi and Pablo Neruda. It traces the course of discovering the poet's expression as the journey within, a divine communion with cosmic consciousness an idea of nation building and collective harmony. This quest of comparative reading of Narendra Modi and Pablo Neruda as poets of people began long back in 2011. I am glad to present this study after working on it gradually for long, I have selected to study few poems from Modi’s Blessed are these Eyes/ Ankh Aa Dhanya Chee and Neruda's Spain in Our Hearts/ Espana En El Corazon, as a more radical investigation into the possibilities and limits of poetics and politics as field of human activity. Focal points of the paper are:  How and why poet Narendra Modi and leader Narendra Modi, is promising. Why and how poet Pablo Neruda and leader Pablo Neruda appeals.  Their works reflect that the poet in their individuality chant about internal order of man, while the leader relates to the external well being and ordering of men.  A quest for internal order in a given epoch coincides with the external ordering and this finally leads to construction of better society, newer nation and a novel world.  An anatomizing of Narendra Modi‘s and Pablo Neruda’s sensitiveness towards Nation, it‘s people and the vocalization of their devotedness through literature.