Analysis of T.S. Eliot's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

The text I am going to analyze is T.S.Eliot's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech. I will focus on T.S.Eliot's speech rather than the response of the Swedish Academy.
The speech is visually divided into four paragraphs. The first one has the function to show T.S.Eliot's appreciation to the Swedish Academy and his feelings for such a honour: receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The first paragraph also anticipates one of the two main themes in T.S.Eliot's speech: the difficulty to find the right language. As the matter of fact the speaker concludes the first paragraph saying: "the expression of one's feelings calls for resources that language cannot supply".
The assertion allowds T.S.Eliot to go on by following a logical thread. Indeed, in the second paragraph, T.S.Eliot, after giving his own interpretation to the Nobel Prize, focuses his attention on the language of poetry. One more time he concludes a paragraph with the problem of language by wich he seems in some ways obsessed. It follows that the reader perceives the structure of the speech as a circle characterized by order and perfection.
The third paragraph consists of one sentence but it occupies a central position: "Poetry, it might seem, separates peoples instead of uniting them". What the reader may catch is the importance of the position of the assertion and also what T.S.Eliot arguments in the last paragraph. As the matter of fact it seems as if the speaker is trying to create doubts into the reader's mind. However he will immediately deconstruct them.
Indeed, in the last paragraph, T.S.Eliot focuses his attention on the difference between language and poetry. According to him, language is a barrier for peoples wether poetry gives a reason to try to destroy the barrier. He also reflects on the prestige of other poets' poetry and he underlines the importance of tradition ("the voices of all the poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also").
T.S.Eliot's Acceptance speech is a very good pretext to reflect on the role of the poet in Modern society and his contribution "toward understanding between peoples".