Alberto Caeiro e João Cabral de Melo Neto: a poesia como acesso

Abstract

This paper initiates from closing reading of the poems O guardador de rebanhos e Morte e vida Severina, in order to show the poetry as something organic, in another words, poetic essence as practitioner of action, giving direction to the narrative. The first poem is written by Alberto Caeiro (1889-1915)- the proclaimed and uncontested master of his brothers-in-Pessoa as teacher Cleonice Berardinelli says- and brings a series of questions about philosophy that organizes and names the feeling- in a gesture of apprehending them- and of the experience acquired by life. Along the way, the reader led by the herdsman, who runs along a slightly damp and unstable soil. Although he have his staff as a guide, our eyes have the autonomy to go back to the verse and question it, as it happens in some moments of the dissertation. The second poem, written by João Cabral de Melo Neto (1920-1999), travels through an arid soil full of deprivation; however, poetry springs forth, as a gesture of resistance, and throws us to life and death all the time. In addition, other authors were read as theoretical basis: Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Friedrich Von Schlegel and Jacques Derrida, for example. Therefore, from the thought of poetry as a questioning and living being (which exposes itself to danger and puts the other in danger) the narrative was the chosen medium to develop this dissertation.