A CONSTRUÇÃO DO IMAGINÁRIO SOB O SIGNO DO MITO EM LIRISMO RURAL

Abstract

The literary critic faces the challenge of eternalizing the poetic work. A proposal for such initiative is to analyze the relations weaved between the poetic literature and the environment, in a perspective of ecocritical’s theory, observing, above all, the man's relations with himself and with nature. The interest in ecocritics is justified due to the shift in perspective of the investigations, from homocentrism to ecocentrism, thus making the main focus of attention effectively be the work and its relations with the represented object. In this context, we’ve analyzed ecocritically Gilberto Mendonça Teles' work, Rural Lyricism, connecting it to the Brazilian Cerrado, in the perspective of revealing its poetic myths, the creative essence of mankind’s imaginary. Therefore, we’ve seen in this work’s poems that the poetic production is concerned with ecological-evolutionary problems that afflict mankind, due to human aggressions that Cerrado has been undergone over the last decades, due to the race for economic development without sustainable planning. Without blaming nature or even mankind for environmental disasters, the poet attributes to man the responsibility for life in Cerrado. Rural Lyricism presents unique characteristics, in the poet's mainly ecocentric vision. Without making or even expressing value judgment, the work constructs and reconstructs the poetic myths that the cerrado people uses to unravel, teach and learn about the ecological-evolutionary and sociocultural functioning of this biome. In this way, the work is eternalized in the Cerrado’s reality and Cerrado is eternalized in the poetic myths that constructs the collective imaginaries present in the work. Which makes it fundamental in the process of human’s construction to conserve and preserve this Brazilian biome.