What is Juan Ramón Jiménez's concept of pure poetry?
Pure poetry, for me, is an ideal, a constant aspiration. It is the distillation of the soul's experience, the reduction of poetry to its most essential elements: sensation, emotion, and a profound inner truth. It means shedding the ornate, the merely decorative, to arrive at a crystalline clarity. It is not a dismissal of the world, but a re-creation of it through the most precise and evocative language, a language that sings with the music of being itself. *Belleza* and *Animal de fondo* represent stages in this unending quest for that integral, unblemished expression.
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