A morte de Ofélia nas águas: reflexos e releitura da personagem de William Shakespeare na poesia de Henriqueta Lisboa

Abstract

This paper intends to show how the intertextual process used by Henriqueta Lisboa in her references to Ophelia, character of Shakespeare's Hamlet, and to her madness and "death", contributes to strengthen the idea that poetry founds a proliferation of senses that cannot be objectively delimited as the traditional "explainers" of poetry intend to. For this purpose, we have read the poem "Ofélia", by the brazilian poet, and compared it to the seventh scene of the fourth act of Hamlet. Based on the thinking of Julia Jristeva, Emmanuel Levinas and above all Maurice Blanchot, among others that contribute with a general analysis of literature and art, we are seeking to reflect on the character's madness, evoked by the literary texts, and on how this madness suggests a break of the poetic text with the finite, the rational, the comprehensible, leading the analist's look to find the poem quite strange, beyond the its critical rational competence.