Nos encalços de Emílio Moura: encruzilhadas de um itinerário poético

Abstract

In order to survey Emílio Moura (1902-1971) uses of modern lyric – taking in account his roles as professor, journalist, and Brazilian poet – this thesis focuses the book Itinário poético (2002) which assembles all his verses. When some themes were frequently noticed, we could realize three possible ways of reading and then infer his strategies as a poet. The metalinguistic poems were the firsts to be analyzed because they concern poetic strategies, characterization of poets, poetry, and also poetic language. These characteristics of the metalinguistic poems point out a literary work stretched between the permanence of the mўthos and the rise of the lógos as well as the outcomes of that tension and of the modern versify. Then the steadiness of the representation of the female – better example of the dematerialized images, or even the reframe of the concreteness in Moura‘s literary work – incites the attempt of denude the emiliana women that is built out of both the mythic vis and the platonic metaphysic. That mythic-idealistic tension becomes even more problematic in the poems which announce the fall, the death or the dissolution of the myths, showing up the melancholic character that goes by the majority of Moura‘s writings. The recurrence of a malaise focusing the expression of the self in Itinerário poético, leads us up to notice melancholy in this poet from the XX century.