Em nome do Pai: a questão religiosa em poetas modernos

Abstract

This research tensions the dialogue between poetry and religiosity, present throughout the history of literature, and its contours from the establishment of modernity in Brazilian poetry, seeking to understand how renowned authors such as Cecília Meireles, Augusto Frederico Schmidt and Murilo Mendes, and to which the still little studied Carlos de Assumpção and João Prado will be added, portray religious thought in their works, often under the guise of the mystical and mythological and not infrequently in close relationship with principles little linked to the idea that is made of religion. Based on the theoretical assumptions of authors such as Karl-Josef Kuschel, Paul Tillich and Antônio Magalhães, among others, the research seeks to establish how the similarities and differences between the poetic text and religious discourse are presented in the texts of the corpus authors, proving the their modernity