O fascínio da morte e o alumbramento: o Belo Belo de Manuel Bandeira

Abstract

The purpose of this Master dissertation is to apprehend the Manuel Bandeira s process of lyric poetry in Belo Belo work. The emphasized poems are: Poema só para Jaime Ovalle , O Homem e a Morte , Tempo-será , A Mário de Andrade ausente , O lutador , Esparsa Triste , A realidade e a imagem , Visita Noturna , Nova poética , Unidade , Arte de amar and Infância . Those poems are divided in two thematic nucleus: death and alumbramento. Inside them, this study tries to explore the elements that effect like resources in Manuel Bandeira s poetics and how the self lyric, before death, connects the alumbramento with that theme. The Phenomenology as a method helps the understanding of the being-in-world and of the finite existence, explainning the feeling regarding to death. Observ itself the similarity between alumbramento and Epiphany connectinning to the biography, to the experience of death, to the childhood and to the body.To the poems analysis we bring Davi Arrigucci Jr., Antonio Candido, Paul Zumthor, Cristovão Tezza, Alfredo Bosi, Olga de Sá, Georges Bataille and others. From analysis, we can conclude, the rhythm is the most important element in Manuel Bandeira s poetry because it establishes connections with the humble poetry, the childhood memory, the body and with the world. What seems connected to the death theme is exactly what leads to alumbramento. The death theme to Manuel Bandeira, acquired another meaning: the motto that ligthed up the fear of death