O ecocriticismo na poesia de Gilberto Mendonça Teles e Lêda Selma: poetas do Cerrado goiano

Abstract

This dissertation seeks, based on the theoretical precepts of ecocriticism, to study two poets from the cerrado of Goiás. The research is based on the work SACIOLOGIA GOIANA, by Gilberto Mendonça Teles and several poems from the work of Lêda Selma that bring the Araguaia River as an ecopoetic material. The texts chosen for this study concentrate examples of ecopoems about the Cerrado of Goiás and poetically present the relationship between man and his environment, from an ecopoetic perspective, calling into question the place and context of writing, as well as its reception. In the first chapter, Paths of Ecocriticism, brings the concept, history and main theories. In the second chapter, the focus is on the poems that deal with and address the Fauna, Flora and Rivers of the Cerrado of Goiás. In the third chapter, poetic texts by Lêda Selma are ecocritically analyzed, which feature the Araguaia River as their theme. The understanding obtained from this study is that poetic literary ecocriticism is an inherent need for human beings and, in this specific case, functions as a mechanism to awaken dormant consciousness in ecological matters