\Com palavras amo\: a study of images in poems by Eugênio de Andrade

Author(s)

Joana Souto Guimaraes Araujo

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2012-12-07

Examining board members

Monica Muniz de Souza Simas; Paola Poma; Sofia Maria de Sousa Silva

• Advisor: Monica Muniz de Souza Simas

Abstract

This dissertation aims at analyzing the main poetic signs and images in Poemas (1945-1965), collection of the first poetry by the Portuguese Eugénio de Andrade, published in 1966. Many of the selected images, read as allusions to the poetic expression, draw movements of dislocation and expansion, revealing an autonomous and reflexive poetic structure which remains in perpetual transformation. In each one of the seven books included in the collection, we identify a poetic nucleus developed around a group of poems, linked by a dominant and recurrent sign. The dynamic of rotation and repetition of signs and images prescribe movement to the poetry by Eugénio de Andrade, organizing cycles that narrate stories of love and poetic emergence, from its birth to its decease or exhaustion, usually lamented by a tragically abandoned poetic subject. Our corpus constitutes of the preface, the opening poem of each of the seven books, as well as other relevant poems and extracts. The main purpose is to investigate the formulation of a poetic conception which reveals itself in constant change and reformation, seeking permanence through the very act of transformation. Its affirmative efforts can be read in association with the tensions lived by the modern individual, who constantly tries to overcome his particularly conflictuous historical moment in which his fellow men can only face a chaotic and fragmented existence, distant from nature and from any kind of reconciliation. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 10/04890-2 - An analysis of the imagery in poems by Eugenio de Andrade
• Grantee: Joana Souto Guimarães Araújo
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master