And a Rose Blooms: War and the Flower in Drummond’s Poetry

Authors

  • Valéria Daiane Soares Rodrigues Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros
  • Ivana Ferrante Rebello Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.23.2.129-136

Keywords:

A rosa do povo, war, flower, Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Abstract

In A Rosa do Povo, Carlos Drummond de Andrade creates, through words and through the conception of a poetic speaker inhabitant of a world at war, an image filled with historical content of Brazil’s World War II final years. The verses translate the experience of gauche Drummond, distressed by the problems of his time, in which individuality arising from the fragmentation of modern men is the sign of conflict between the poetic speaker and the world. The poet melancholically describes the degeneration of things and men, through the benumbing awareness and lack of prospects. The strength that emerges from the symbolic rose supports the Itabirano’s poetic accent: the destruction of values caused by death and bloodshed contrasts with the flower blooming in the asphalt. From the ground covered with corpses emerges a rose, a representation of the human resistance.

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Author Biographies

Valéria Daiane Soares Rodrigues, Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros

Aluna do Mestrado em Letras Estudos Literários da Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros- UNIMONTES.

Ivana Ferrante Rebello, Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros

Professora Doutora do Departamento de Comunicação e Letras e Professora do Mestrado em Letras da Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros - UNIMONTES.

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Published

2013-08-30

How to Cite

Rodrigues, V. D. S., & Rebello, I. F. (2013). And a Rose Blooms: War and the Flower in Drummond’s Poetry. Aletria: Revista De Estudos De Literatura, 23(2), 129–136. https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.23.2.129-136

Issue

Vol. 23 No. 2 (2013): Memórias de Guerra

Section

Sessão 3. Segunda Guerra Mundial: Memórias da Catástrofe

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