A poesia de W.H. Auden no arco do tempo entre a modernidade e a pós-modernidade

Abstract

This paper investigates both the poetic work and the critical-theoretical production of W. H. Auden (1907-1973) searching to unveil the nuances of the passage from modernity to postmodernity in the literary context. The way made by this Anglo-American poet throughout his 45 years (1928-1973) of production allows us to perceive and track changes in his lyric that is always linked to social and existential issues of his time. In order to follow Auden’s path between modernity and postmodernity, without neglecting the reflection about them, it was necessary to put side by side the theoric thoughts of the poet with those from other writers to talk about many issues, among which we highlight language, poetry, subject, society, history, literary criticism. These procedures allowed us to select a set of representative poems of real change in the ways that Auden conceives poetry, and its social and existential functions, these poems were analyzed pari passu with our theoretical considerations.