Da melancolia ao erotismo na poesia de Manuel Bandeira

Abstract

The object of this thesis is to analyze the themes of melancholia, death, humor, irony, and eroticism in the works of Manuel Bandeira, chiefly A cinza das horas, Carnaval, O ritmo dissoluto e Libertinagem. In his first work, A cinza das horas, the poet interacts intensely with the disease that has attacked him tuberculosis, creating poems impregnated with impressions of death, a theme that makes itself present in most of his work. In particular the poem “Disenchantment” will be analyzed under this prism. Carnaval, the author’s second book, does not offer a great change either in esthetics or form, largely continuing the themes of the first. O ritmo dissoluto exhibits the beginnings of a transition, with some modernist characteristics, but still exhibits a smooth style. In Libertinagem the author enters a new phase. Manuel Bandeira’s form of writing becomes freer and he approaches his themes with irony and humor. “Pneumotórax” is one of the poems analyzed here. Even as he treated his own tragedy with irony, death continued to be a part of Manuel Bandeira’s literary work. The literature review will be based on the works of some authors like David Arrigucci Jr. (1992), Salete Cara de Almeida (1981), Emanuel de Moraes (1971) and others. There will be a systematic study of different moments experienced by the poet, who managed to reinvent itself, producing increasingly, also breaking with tradition. How this changes over time will be deeply researched and the key moments in the poet’s life analyzed systematically. Although he became ill at 17 and lived daily with the expectation of death, this only arrived at age 82, the result of a gastric hemorrhage.