Poetry as a toy: a study of Manoel de Barros

Abstract

This research proposes a critical reading of the poetry of Manoel de Barros - with emphasis on the poems in the book Memórias Inventadas. As Infâncias de Manoel de Barros in view of the preoccupation with the poetic exercise present in his work. In fact, there is a dynamic game characterized by a poetry that wants to be reflexive while evoking the materiality made "toy". The metapoetry, frequent in this work, make it clear that the poet's desire is to achieve something that is prior to the word and therefore intends to place himself on the principle of what can be said, so it is recurrent to use references such as the child , the birds and / or the wanderers. This primitive / primordial situation seems to be the frontier between perceiving the world and things and conceptualizing them. That is, between the sensory perception and the organization of the meaning of these things in language, a "crossing" happens, a displacement from one condition to another. nIn view of this, it was possible to inquire how poetry performs as a toy and art of playing through the "trans-use" of language, that is, to think of the relations between toy and poetry, observing the possibility of being instruments that enable the displacement between signifiers and meanings.