William Faulkner's Didactic Speech Summary

Poet, William Faulkner in his didactic speech, when accepting the Nobel prize in literature (1950), expresses his thoughts of an ideal writer. He supports his claim by providing thoughts and actions a good writer would do.For example in paragraph 3, it states, “he labors under a curse. He writes not of love but of lust.” these thoughts represent bad writers, writing only for something they desire, not because they “love it.” and that they are basically almost being forced like a “curse” would do. In addition, in the same paragraph, it states “He writes not from the heart but from the glands”, with these words the author lets the readers know one more time that bad writers, write without meaning or importance.However, in paragraph 4 it states,