The particular and the universal in the poetics of Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Abstract

Our goal is to analyze the poetic elements of Drummond as enriching of human life in its unique, particular and universal aspects. These categories will be worked from the theoretical vision of Georg Lukács, especially in the first volume of Aesthetics and in Marxism and literature theory. We think there is a strong intention of the poet to concentrate his poetics, that is, the methods and literary motifs in his book entitled Body. This book, in this sense, is his last attempt, alongside Farewell, to construct a work, in which poems are at the same time cohesive and seemingly without dialectical nexuses, which encompass the whole concern of merging universal themes and (philosophical-existential, social, loving) and literary doing (singularity). Body is purposely the synthesis of the poetic work of Carlos Drummond de Andrade. To develop our study of drummonian poetry, we will start from two points. In the first place, we will consult his critical fortune, having as a center of bibliographical research the book The Love and other aspects in Drummond, of the teacher and poet Linhares Filho; the text “Concerns in the poetry of Drummond”, by Antonio Candido (various writings); and the work of criticism and interpretation of Affonso Romano de Sant’Anna, entitled Drummond, “The gauche in time”. The second moment is an analysis of the poems of Body, making an intratextual study with other works of the poet from Minas Gerais.