Morte e Transfiguração na Poesia de Afonso Felix de Sousa

Abstract

This thesis is the study of the theme “Death and Transfiguration as a constitutive element of Afonso Felix de Sousa’s poetry and poetic evolution. Taking as its starting point the history of man’s relationship with the idea (physical, theological and philosophical) of death, as well as necessary basic concepts from literary history, theory, and criticism, this thesis tried to show how the goiano poet throughout his poetical production dealt with the theme of death: first, as a recurrent theme in the life of a man attached to the physical and secular world (as the end of life only); second, as the acceptance of death’s inevitability (as a reflection on the meaning of human existence), that is, as a passage from the physical secular world to the spiritualized world, as a necessary cyclical renovation of life; third, as a necessary rebirth, the way to abandon the physical and secular world and the subsequente transcendence into a spiritualized world (as a search for redemption). As partial basis for the analysis of Afonso Felix de Sousa’s poetry the thesis also tried to show how some relevant aspects of the poet’s personal life influenced the construction of his poetical development into transcendence.