Sá-Carneiro: will to death, life miss

Abstract

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-7917.2016v21n2p79

This paper considers the elaboration of the idea of death in Mário de Sá-Carneiro’s poem “Dispersão”. The analysis and interpretation intend to offer a critical reading of the lyrical subject’s restlessness /obsession aspects facing the thoughts of death. The gentleness of Sá-Carneiro's poetry, at times "preparatory to death", allows a labyrinthine, embedded, conditioned vision on breaking boundaries, which is exemplified in his poems. Hence collating of the idea of death as a perpetuation of an instant regardless of the outcomes that such breakage might reveal. Thereby, bringing to light the poem “Dispersão” means to understand it as a fine exercise of observing the circularity, the motion, the sinuosity, the eternal return. The ellipses, the brightness, the entrances and exits on controversial moods, all of this constitutes the short duration of the poet life, while his poetry, like weavers of a tapestry that we are always trying to put threads together, continues to entertain us, a century after be written, immortalizing the poet who copiously refused to live.