Confluência entre a poesia e a prosa nas crônicas de Episodio Humano, de Cecília Meireles

Abstract

This research has as focus the possibilities of communication as result of the relationship between the chronicles and poetry of Cecília Meireles. In the first moment we turn to the comparison of her verses and prose, our corpus of study: the book Episódio Humano, published posthumously in 2007. We present, a minuscious analysis of the elements that compose the poetic genre, besides the definition of chronicle, the caracteristics and transformation along the history. The thoughts of Roman Jakobson, Jean Cohen, Tzevtan Todorov, Henry Suhamy, Maurice-Jean Lefebve, Octavio Paz, Antonio Candido and Massaud Moisés were essential to the development of this work. Through the inherent poetic sign aspects we can see the possible dialogues found between the different texts of Cecília Meireles, and answer the essential question: Is there poeticity in the chronicles Episódio Humano? In other words, is there confluence between the prose and the poetry in the studied work? Does the carioca writer reveal herself on prose the poetess she is on verses? Critics of the first phase of modernism or of a more mature moment of our literature helped us to answer this question. By preparing the chapter Critical Fortune of Cecília Meireles , we obteined some important reviews regarding the production of the poetess. Here is a brief definition about the art of the writer under the light of the critic Nunes Sampaio: The poetry of Cecília Meireles is one of the most pure, beautiful and valuable manifestation of the contemporary literature . This thought is intended just tostir our expectation in relation to Cecília s poetry