A viagem como mergulho de autoconhecimento: um estudo sobre a Índia de Cecília Meireles

Abstract

The present work seeks to undertake the relationship between Cecilia Meireles's idea of travel and the classical sense of Greco-Roman "leisure" and Indian meditation, both as experiences of knowing oneself and the world from the poet's works written in India. Reference is made to classical Greek philosophy, as the basis of Western thought, and in it the concepts reference for the possibility of understanding the poet and his dialogues with the East. Thus, through Cecilia's poems and chronicles in India, this dissertation aims to demonstrate the travel experience in her poems and chronicles in India and present its deep content of philosophical reflection linked to the experience of travel, self-knowledge and spirituality. It is also present the objectives of enabling ways of dialogue between Brazil and India, starting from the reflections of the Brazilian poet and his non-orientalist view since they are religious scenarios with religious similarities and pluralities and outside Europe.