Espaço e espectralidade na poesia de Ferreira Gullar

Abstract

There are several ways of reading poetry. One of them is to make use of a prior tool as a guidance to the reading. The guidance, presented in this study, has a particular purpose: to be a reading tool designed to highlight some aspects of Ferreira Gullar’s poetry. Considering one of his poems namely Poema Sujo there ware identified some features which may be found in many other poems by Ferreira Gullar. These features were considered as part of the poetic space and indicated as body, furniture, grocery, city, planet, solar system, galaxy and universe. Such elements are present in poems in his books, for instance, Dentro da noite veloz (1975), Na vertigem do dia (1980), Barulhos (1987), Muitas vozes (1999) e Em alguma parte alguma (2010). We analyzed the Poema Sujo in which it was able to notice the poetic images considered relevant to spatial, sensory, memory and political elements of the poems. We have included his latest book called Em alguma parte alguma. For the analysis we have used the assumptions of Jacques Derrida concerning the spectrality that is the presence of a ghost that causes trouble or threatens; the space understood as a built space by Milton Santos; and also the theoretical assertiveness of João Luiz Lafetá regarding Ferreira Gullar’s changes in trajectory from a writing concerned about metaphysical issues to a poetry closely connected with social issues.