Arando a linguagem: uma leitura comparada entre as poéticas de Salgado Maranhão e Seamus Heaney

Abstract

This dissertation aims to draw a comparative analysis between the poetical works of the Irish poet Seamus Heaney and the Brazilian poet Salgado Maranhão, regarding the indissoluble tension between intuition and reason that is at the core of the poetic act, especially during the composition writing process. Utilizing as presupposition the concepts of the “Apollonian” and “Dionysian” coined by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, both developed in the work The Birth of Tragedy (1872), the present study attempts to pinpoint these antithetical elements that are in the genesis of poetry, as well as the poetic postures based on them (hereinafter called “instinctual poetry” and “cerebral poetry”). Furthermore, we intend to comprise the way through which the poetical works of both poets are inserted in the contemporary poetic manifestations. Lastly, basing on the symbolism of the earth/soil – wide and constantly addressed throughout the works of Heaney and Salgado – we intend to interpret the feasible literary, social, cultural and historic meanings of such metaphor.