Carlos Drummond de Andrade | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 17 pages of analysis & critique of Carlos Drummond de Andrade.

Carlos Drummond de Andrade | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 17 pages of analysis & critique of Carlos Drummond de Andrade.
This section contains 4,043 words
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SOURCE: Pontiero, Giovanni. “The Amorous Theme in the Poetry of Carlos Drummond de Andrade.” Annali Istituto Universitario Orientale, Napoli, Sezione Romanza 24 (6 January 1982): 143-55.

In the following essay, Pontiero discusses the ways in which Drummond's poetry deals with the theme of human love and points out the evolution of the poet's techniques and styles.

É um amor

perfeito? perfeito da china? perfeito do mato? perfeito azul? perfeito bravo? próprio? materno? filial? incestuoso? livre? platônico? socrático? de vaqueiro? de carnaval? de cigano? de perdição? de hortelão? de negro? de deus? do próximo? sem olho? à patria? bruxo? que não ousa dizer o nome?

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The most searching of Carlos Drummond de Andrade's meditations on love are to be found in a central collection of verse, Claro Enigma, published in 1951, and the crux of the...

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