Summary: Chilean poet Pablo Neruda was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1971. In accepting the award, he said that the poet must achieve a balance "between solitude and solidarity, between feeling and action, between intimacy of mankind and the revelation of nature." When Neruda's most popular work, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown poet whose writings would ignite a generation.
