The routes to be followed into Alberto Caeiros’s poetry: a reception aesthetics approach

Abstract

The aim of this article is to study the 8^th poem Num meio dia de fim de primavera written by Alberto Caeiro. The analysis proposed will be based on some of the Reception Aesthetics concepts mainly focusing on enriching the sensory aspects of the text, especially the visual one. For that purpose, the poetic devices used in the construction of the text as well as its reception by the readers will be highlighted. The analysis will be based on the concepts theorized by Wolfgang Iser. Such concepts are: a) the interaction between text and reader and the position of the latter at the time of the former reception; b) the blank places; c) the negation and negativity structures; and d) it will also consider the approach to reading as an act in which the reader is responsible for achieving the meaning for the text and for creating an “aesthetic pleasure” through it. This last concept is grounded in Hans Robert Jauss theory.