Viewpoints Comparative Questions

  1. How is the relationship between “dependent” and “independent” nations characterized in each document? What evils are associated with “dependence”?
  2. How might Neruda have modified the UN declaration? What might he have added that its authors left out?

Pablo Neruda, Canto General, trans. Jack Schmitt (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), 176–179.