Algumas considerações sobre a poesia de BOCAGE

Abstract

This work aims at the analysis of the erotic and satirical poetry of Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage and its impact on portuguese society of the eighteenth century. The irony, by definition, suggests a reversal of statements denying the opposite of what is stated or vice versa. But such a feature, widely used by Poet, overcomes the mere function of figure of thought, since, leveraging a powerful critical arsenal, allows the construction of a destabilizing discourse, intended to checkmate the official ideology. The bocagiana lyrical, satirical and erotic in their shed, it is debauchery, the escrache or foul-mouthed satire to put the clear distinction between essence and appearance, in a society whose moral is built from the religious beliefs do not always professed, either by the social body as a whole, either by the clergy, this moral guardian. Examine in this work, inscribed discursive modes of representation in this poetry. Bocage beyond the borders of their time in poems whose licentiousness often does not hide a hint of bitterness and suffering. Divided between two worlds: the arcade, under the sign of reason, consists of rigid rules; and the romantic, governed by passion, Elmano does not hide the bewilderment, looking in hiding the possible route to the expansion of an angry spirit