Abstract
This study focuses on one of the most problematic aspects of Brazilian lyric poetry of the second post-war, which was the formalist tendency, with neoclassical features, notable in the work of poets from Modernism, such as Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Murilo Mendes, Jorge de Lima, and Augusto Meyer, and in the works of the then emergent "generation of 1945", generally disregarded by litera…