THE LANGUAGE AND LANDSCAPE IN THE TRIAD RIVER OF THE POETRY OF JOÃO CABRAL DE MELO NETO

Abstract

This paper proposes a representation of the geographical landscape that is part of the formation of Brazilian identity process and the literature was a way that materialize this conception, from a study of João Cabral de Melo Neto poetry, approaching the poems: O CÃO SEM PLUMAS, O RIO and MORTE E VIDA SEVERINA, in them the landscape and water stand out in the language as a scuffle fight, tortured landscape, twisted branches as hands beg are caused by refined poetic writing and by portraying the degradation of Capibaribe River, one of the most important symbols of the city of Recife (PE), discusses the landscape and issues related to individual and social aspects of being human. In these poems, the poetic built reflects the experience of the riparian man with environment. It adopts the prosaic language as metaphorical sign to give voice to the river, prints the concreteness and reality in the man. We seek to link through the study of the poems the landscape aspects, images described and still a relationship with water and the frantic search for northeastern man for quality of life. The article is in a bibliographic review in which it has the theoretical referential as authors: Vesentini and Vlach (2002); Marandola and Mota (2007); Rocha (2011), among others. These studies reinforce the interest in studying literary papers analyzing them from a geographical way.