Latin American poetry of the twentieth century profoundly reimagined the relationship be-tween human consciousness and the natural world, challenging anthropocentric perspectives inherited from European tradition. The present paper deals with the problem of understanding how Pablo Neruda articulates a vision of human-nature unity in his poem “Oh Earth, Wait for Me” (Oh Tierra, Espérame), published in the collection Extravagaria (1958). The purpose of this study is to analyze how Neruda employs apostrophe, imagery, and philosophical vision to present belonging to nature not as metaphor but as ontological reality, with death figured as homecoming rather than termination. The research paper employs the research method of close textual analysis informed by ecocritical theory and Latin American literary studies to interpret the poem’s treatment of human-environment relationship. The research paper concludes that Neruda’s poetics of belonging challenges Western dualism by dissolving the subject-object dis-tinction, presenting the human not as observer or master of nature but as participant in earth’s perpetual cycles, with individual consciousness giving way to material reintegration. The fu-ture perspective of research is to situate this poem within Neruda’s broader ecological vision and comparative analysis with other environmental poets.

Poetics of Belonging, Human and Nature, Neruda, Oh Earth Wait for Me