A encarnação da palavra em Terra de Santa Cruz, de Adélia Prado

Abstract

Poetry presents itself as a specific language that transposes the objectivity of life through the senses, even when poetry talks about what is most evident in everyday life. That said, it does not seem bold to consider that the poetic is par excellence transgressive and transcendent because it extrapolates in the poem the limits of the body in the experience of the real and language. In this study, we aimed to explore aspects of Adélia Prado's poetry that became more evident in the book entitled “Terra de Santa Cruz” (1981), such as the religious dimension, the social dimension, and its implications from the body. To this end, her poems were analyzed, taking as a main theoretical reference the studies of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Octavio Paz, Maurice Halbwachs, and Georges Bataille, in the attempt to determine the incarnation of the word in the poem, through the sensitive perception of the body as opposed to the intelligible. It is perceived that the poetess’s religious insertion is linked to the social experience in everyday life, in which relationships are nourished by memory and eroticism, singularized by the duality of experience with the sacred and the profane. Her lyricism, in this context, is understood as the individual expression of consciousness, which positions the poetic subject in the center of the poem, marking the text with intertextual procedures, being possible to verify the recurrent dialogue in her writings with the biblical texts, the prose of Guimarães Rosa and the poetry of Carlos Drummond.