Drummond poetranslator, or Carlos from shore to shore

Abstract

My main goal in this article is to analyze how Carlos Drummond de Andrade’s poetry works out translation processes creatively, whether in intralingual translation, or in the process of expanding the interpretation of a word via translation, similarly to the notion presented by Javier Franco Aixelá’s Culture-Specific Items. My analysis begins by approaching what Drummond gains with proper translation processes, by reading a poem by Federico García Lorca he translated into Brazilian Portuguese. Next, I analyze a sonnet from the book A paixão medida, claiming that the process of expansion/translation of a term engages and launches the poem as a whole. The examples presented here attempt to show how important translation processes are as core instruments in creative writing, in endless literary recreation, in intertextuality, in the interplay of meaning and feelings and sensations available to poets and writers in general.