Drummond

poetry and coherence, from the end to the beginning

Abstract

In this article, poems from the works Farewell and Alguma poesia, both by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, are analyzed, investigating possible intertextual relations, based on syntactic and semantic components, within the perspective of discursive semiotic theory. Bearing in mind that this work is a continuation of previous researches, Farewell Gestures in Farewell, by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, and Farewell and Passion in Farewell, by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, in order to achieve these objectives, we sought to identify and describe procedures related to the semantic field of farewell and passion. In this sense, initially, concepts of discursive semiotics are presented, such as debreaking and isotopy; next, the figurativization and thematization procedures that allow an articulation between the two books are considered. Finally, from the selection of poems, the similarities between the poet's last work, Farewell, and the first, Alguma poesia, are analyzed, which are articulated according to the three levels of the generative path: the fundamental, the narrative and the discursive. By examining the texts, it can be seen that the poems that make up the corpus of the research dialogue with each other with regard to the theme, the reiteration of words and the valuation of the particular and the concrete, in addition to the simplicity inherent in the Drummondian discourse.