O MENINO GAUCHE EM DRUMMOND

Abstract

Gaucherie is known as one of the most present and intense features in Drummond’s work, as a conducting wire which defines the lyric self in a transformation course. But where’s the radix of this gauche? The poet sets his path with Alguma Poesia opening poem, however, this gauche, in later works, appears latently, like one of his disguises. Until in Boitempo (the trilogy), the lyric self turns into past, mixing time, determining the character who consecrates him as the displaced person. In this work, the language reaches its most prosaic level in poetry; the child’s language is embedded in adult prose, like an attempt of writing the self and for seeking understanding, besides the lector’s importance of sharing this lived universe. This essay aims at pursue, from stylistic analysis of Boitempo’s poems, elements of prosaic poetry which interweave in gauche subjectivity constitution, at a time poetry becomes a divan to the lyric self in his comprehension of himself. For both, the research is focused in the literary text, starting with a bibliographic study that theorizes Drummond’s language cut process, in a dialogical exercise between the author and the lector. This way, beyond Boitempo’s work with the poems, other ones will be highlighted in the analysis. Among selected researchers: Berardinelli (2007), Sant’Anna (1992), Correia (2002), Cançado (2006), Villaça (2006) and Moraes Neto (2007).