Rubén Darío, un puente perdurable entre continentes y culturas
Rubén Darío, an enduring bridge between continents and cultures

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the literary activity of the Spanish poet Rubén Darío, the “poetic inventor of Spanish language”, in terms of Pablo Neruda, focusing the permanent effort of Darío to politically unify the Latin American countries, already fused in spirit and language. We emphasize the intuition of a cultural clash between the two Americas (Anglo-Saxon America versus Spanish America) in his initial poetic creation, indicating the elements that give rise to a strong sense of separation between the two. We later inspect Darío’s solution to bring together the countries of the “almighty dollar” and those of “love”, prior to the First World War. We identify the way Darío conceives the idea of motherland, his inner motivations being based on his sense of belonging to Nicaragua, Chile, Argentina on one hand and to Europe (Spain, France), on the other hand. We stress upon the elements present in his poems which underline his cosmopolitism, his intense role of cultural harmonizer, revealing his declared aim to build an everlasting alliance between continents and cultures.

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