Leitura de poesia: o canto de Augusto dos Anjos

Abstract

This work intends to examine some particularities of the poetry of Augusto dos Anjos (1884-1914), in which concerns to the reception of his language, of appreciated themes and metaphors and considered as a realization of poetry in a high artistic level, by specialized critics and common readers, as can be found by the successive reissues of Eu (1912), as well by the posterior publication of other poems and prose, as given in the study performed by Zenir Campos Reis (1977), in a critical-philosophical manner. Many readers say his poems by heart, which proves the level of affinity with his way of treating Poetry, as a way of communicate with other common people and that is the path this work intends to present, as a project of reading his poetry in the classroom, as a lesson of life. This present exercise uses theoretical contributions given by other readers of the poet.