Canto General

But at the same time it could be said that any concern for a human sector in particular, as in the song, is an implicit concern by all mankind. Does not deny the humanism of Neruda, but it is said that you holding a special type of humanism. This humanism is based on the redemption of the class or category of the exploited, subordinated or alienated or if you want to ninguneados in the case of Neruda the American man. In Marxist theory, humanism focuses on the class that assumes the exploitation and suffering of humanity; the proletariat, and from there to redeem himself frees or done to humanity. In Neruda, this proletariat takes on the dimension of the American man, original and mestizo, whose vicissitudes are extrapolated to other humanity as a whole, which expands and inhabits what here in the North, is called the South, and that is the vast periphery, separated in standard of living and opportunities to the metropolis that is opposed in an asymmetrical relationship unsalvageable. But that in your desalienacion you redeem also their exploiters, humanizing both.

At the beginning of the first part of Canto General, and within the first section, love America, we can warn a State of things edenico, paradise, before of the arrival of the conquerors: before the wig and the jacket. This idyllic state of affairs is characterized by the original communion between man and nature, a how permanent and repeated, so established cultural myth that although it touches the limits of the cliche is a transcendental and urgent vindictive horizon: Earth man was, Crock, eyelid / quivering mud, clay form / was Caribbean, chibcha stone Crock. The keys were lost, or flooded of silence or blood fell a red drop into the dense / and a land lamp went out. The introduction of the European .the wig and Mr casaca, causes death and degradation of American edenico man.