Babaeva Aida Muradovna – applicant of the Department of history of foreign literatures of St. Petersburg State University; ORCHID: 0009-0004-0670-5383; Zhukov Andrey Pavlovich – candidate of philological sciences, associate professor of the department of history of foreign literatures, St. Petersburg State University; ORCID: 0000-0002-5012-5421
This article explores the concept of poetry in the works of Chilean poet and educator Gabriela Mistral, winner of the 1945 Nobel Prize in Literature. The figure of the poet occupies a special place in the formation of Latin America’s civilizational community. He acts as the creator and exponent of national identity. Gabriela Mistral’s poetic reflection is embedded in the continent’s cultural paradigm of the first half of the twentieth century. In her view, poetry is a theurgic act, and the poet is a collector and custodian of images, a collective voice that restores the mythopoetic integrity of existence.
concept; Latin America; poet; prophet; wanderer.