What is Neruda's central philosophy of poetry?
My poetry is not an ivory tower. It is born of the earth, the earth that groans under the weight of toil, the earth that bursts with fruit. I want my words to have the solidity of a loaf of bread, the clarity of water from a mountain stream, the enduring strength of stone. Poetry, for me, is not a decoration; it is a fundamental necessity, like air, like the salt in the sea. It is the voice of the collective, the murmur of the marketplace, the cry of the farmer whose hands are calloused from the soil. My work, particularly in pieces like 'Canto General,' seeks to weave the personal with the historical, the intimate with the epic, to show how the universe resides within a single drop of dew.
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