O verso-assinatura Ricardo Reis: um sopro clássico ao verso moderno

Abstract

This dissertation aims at analysing Ricardo Reis's poetical work based on the concept of indifference. Such indifference is understood as one way in which the language remains in absolute precedence, preserving its divine status and its impersonality. This research suggests that indifference might be the path that Ricardo Reis points out to fullfill the purpose of art, imitating nature as a pure and intangible poiesis, a productive force conceived as a domain indifferent to itself and to what it accomplishes. It is assumed that Ricardo Reis, subjected to the indifference of language, keeps the poem in a previous divine and impersonal sphere of language by taking on, before being a poet, a verse-signature authorized by the work of art whose first trace is poem. Therefore, through a reflective reading of some chosen poems, this study aims at understanding how indifference guides the artistic task of Ricardo Reis, taking into account that language precedes the very act of writing verses