Lírica Líquida: a água na poesia de Cecília Meireles e de Sophia Andresen

Abstract

The dissertation “Lírica Líquida: a água na poesia de Cecília Meireles e de Sophia Andresen” (Liquid Lyric: the water in a Cecilia Meireles and Sophia Andresen’s poetry) is the research's final result which main objective was to analyze some poems of the books Mar absoluto e outros poemas, by Cecília Meireles, and Poesia, by Sophia Andresen, for establishing the subjectivity expression composed by the water symbols. As a comparative study, the objective execution was done through specifics objectives which were: list some moments in a XX century, that are able to situate the chosen books; establish a discussion around the creational poetic process used by Cecília Meireles and Sophia Andresen; explain subjectivity and otherness, justifying their presence in the chosen poems; and, finally, establish a comparison or by similarity or by dissimilarity between the poems whose themes and images appear linked to the water element. As a literary analysis, this research was developed through bibliographic methodology, by theoretical and critics texts systematization, as well as selection of poems contained in the chosen books. In this way, this introduction text’s brings some general elements about poetry, the new humanism's theory, by Emmanuel Lévinas, the material imagination theory, by Gaston Bachelard and the thematic criticism theory, considered by Daniel Bergez. The first chapter is composed by contextual elements about the twentieth century that surrounded these author’s poetic production; then, it is listed the literary criticism about Cecília Meireles and Sophia Andresen. The second chapter, by its turn, is constituted by the analysis of the chosen poems in the mentioned books. The third chapter, so, establishes the comparison for similarity or dissimilarity of themes that each one of writers had treated. This dissertation is concluded making a synthesis of the presented discussion in each chapter and proposing that the relation between Cecília Meireles’ and Sophia Andresen’s poetry provides elements for a comparative study based in the influence that cecilian’s poetry has over the andresenian’s poetry and that the subjectivity expression related to the water image, like a mirror, evokes some questions about ethic and static esthetic.