As estações do eu: infância, velhice e memória na poesia de Jáder de Carvalho

Abstract

Much of the poetry of Jáder de Carvalho is permeated by a memoirist feeling, one of the key points of his writing less explored by critics. This paper revisits the poetic production of Jáder de Carvalho to explore what in it figure as a driving force and indicate the poets maturity in handling the word: childhood and old age, moved by the gears from memory. Carvalhos poetic text presents the stages of human age with their specific forms of organization and complexity. Thus, we analyze the meaning units related to these imaginary: in childhood, backlands, landscape, travel; in old age, loneliness, silence, absense. Often, the old man finds the boy he once was, in a dialogue permeated of encouragement and happiness or melancholy and resentment. Lighting the poetic text from other inventaries of knowledge, the theoretical investments of Alfredo Bosi, Clara Rocha, Paula Morão and Marcello Mathias Duarte, in offering us reflection about the autobiographical texts, are combined to study the Jáder 's poetry.