Manoel de Barros e os Espaços da Infância

Abstract

This study aims to examine the first three Mato Grosso poet Manoel de Barros´ (1916) works: Poemas concebidos sem pecado (1937), Face Imóvel (1942) e Poesias (1947). The problem that arises concerns treatment of children, identifying the poet´s theme, wich will be seen here through the notion of space. Assuming that the text creates a tension between the rural and urban categories, we intend to see how Barros´ poetry creates, through childhood memories, particular scenarios for both types of space, bringing to the city, most often, a negative feature of discomfort for the self-lyrical, in contrast with the field, you place that reveals how idyllic. The attempts to recover the work habits and children´s portraits of fellow boys from Pantanal, from the metamorphosis of these realities on poetry, and for that, seek support in childhood and notions of space, to the extent that credits the sources of these two elements of Manoel de Barros´ poetic identity.