Conflict, impasse and performative contradiction in “Poetry”

Abstract

This text follows the intricacies of poetry immersed in the poetic problem of subjective conflict. In Alguma Poesia, from Carlos Drummond de Andrade a work marked by a multiplicity of perspectives on the most varied themes, subjects, and topics, the poet's attitude toward the art of the object called poetry is interpreted. “Poesia” emerges as a result of conflict, impasse, and performative contradiction, which will be discussed here. Thus, by exposing some divisions and resolutions founded on the relationship between the poet-self and the impasse, it reflects how the performative contradiction of poetic enunciation elaborates a poem in which the ironic and destructive translation that dominates the work is simultaneously affirmed and negated within the same space.