Poetic lucidity in Ave, Palavra, by Guimarães Rosa

Abstract

This paper proposes an analysis of the poetic compositions written by João Guimarães Rosa published in his hybrid book Ave, Palavra (1970). We start from the perspective that his poems are based on what Octavio Paz (1993) called “poesia de convergência”, inheritance of the dialogue between two extremes arising from romantic production: analogy and irony. Taking into account the tendency as irony, we highlight among the author's productions four compositions that promote the exploration of literary creation. As a method of analysis, approximations of the poems will be made with other works and other texts which probe the literary work, such as the interview given by the artist to Günter Lorenz (1973), the correspondence exchanged with his Italian translator Edoardo Bizzarri (1980) and sections of prefaces of Tutameia (ROSA, 1976). The reading, therefore, seeks to analyze how such disturbing questions perform in his poems, sometimes from embryonic narratives, allegorical, sometimes using compositions with a more lyrical tone, bringing to the surface recurrent images in their productions, evidencing that his poetry is not just an accident, but it composes the aesthetic project of the author.