DRUMMOND: O POETA QUE ESPIA EXPIANDO.

Abstract

Carlos Drummond de Andrade s poetic work prompts the theme of spyexpiating (espia-expiando, in the Portuguese original), a demonstration of poetic truth in and of itself, through a dialectic-aesthetic prism, with deductive method and reflections, amassing the metaphysical, philosophical and poetical processes wherein the very author is both theme and object, and his work is a true Drummondian anthropology. The main goal of this paper is an attempt at demonstrating that the poet s lyrical self is in an expiatory state, in suffering for having spied, contemplated the outside world, living in a state of unrest in time and space, which allows for the relief of this state of disenchantment, the return poetic memorialism to the beginning, Itabira, which has been remembered, since the first poem in 1930 published in the book Alguma Poesia (Some Poetry, in literal translation) , as a lovely place, metaphorically preserved, thus behaving as the prodigal son of Brazilian poetry. The contact with Drummondian poetry surprises and captivates those who seek it, not only for the aesthetic pleasure, but also for the acute reflection which takes readers and makes them participants in this existential drama, to free them through poetry so they can bask in transcendence, in metaphors. The object is the word embodied in the poem, the saving Word. This research is based on the reflections of thinkers and literary critics such as Michel Foucault, Octavio Paz, Gaston Bachelard, Gilberto Mendonça Teles, Affonso Romano de Sant Anna, among others. The focus on the struggle of the imprisoned soul, impotent before the reality that threatens it, but which reveals itself in the poem, making the latter a freeing, solidary weapon, enabling withdrawal into the sources of emotion, which is larger than the stage of suffering; into the magic, the charm of art and language, as the all-saving, purifying water that flows from the lyrical self. All of this is ultimately combined into the charisma of the poet.