THE LYRICISM AND THE SPACE IN THE EUGENIO DE ANDRADE’S POETRY

Abstract

Eugênio de Andrade’s poetry, known by portraying the man and his life in their elementary natural landscape, reveals the constant search for the human (re)construction in the pictorial/poematic space. From this study perspective, we aim to discuss how the space, permeated by the four elements present in Eugênio de Andrade’s poems, reveal the corporeality of the human nature, essentially spacial (as long as integrated to Nature) and vivify it by the poetic language. This reflection still emphasises subjective questions that pervaded by spacial images, reverberate the man’s identity while a corporeal being placed into the cosmos, only recognized by the language that constitutes himself. Discussions based on the poetic space according to M. Blanchot, Santos e Oliveira, Ida Alves and others, which present the image and the landscape as an effective way to the lyrical revelation, were used to these reflections. Thus, we aim to discuss how the re-creation of the landscape in the poems “Sul” and “Lugar do Sol” occur and, how these poems corporify the human nature (spacial integrated to Nature) re-creating it through the poetic language. In line with the readings cited above, we may claim that the eugenianos poems are spacial images; more specifically, they are landscapes of the man, that fuse himself to the natural elements, through a highly pictorial language and, in this manner, the man is revealed in his innermost by means of an exteriority that blends and fuse itself to the natural elements. All of this because of a movement of imageries and chromatic metaphors.