Eu intimo-me a reconhecer-me em mim-mesmo: sujeito e memória na poesia de Age de Carvalho

Abstract

Memory is an important element in the poetry of Age de Carvalho, because, as observed in many texts that compose his critical fortune, there is a biographical reality that serves as a starting point for the construction of the poems and that, when allied to various poetic resources, shifts from his commitment to reality and becomes a matter of poetry acquiring great polysemic power. In this context, we perceive in the constant return to the past the voice of a subject, the Self that retains the memories that are associated, above all, with the search for its origin and identity, as subject that reflects its place in the world. As a theoretical contribution of the work we will resort to Blanchot (1997), in his studies on the nature of poetic language, Ricoeur (2007), Le Goff (1996) and Halbwachs (2006) on memory, Freud and Lacan (2003) , while being endowed with an unconscious aspect, in order to understand how this structure relates to memory, and consequently to poetic creation. As a corpus, eight poems were selected from the poet's last three books: Caveira 41 (2003), Trans (2011) and Ainda: em viagem (2015), since the three books have memory as an important element mainly associated with poetic themes such as friendship, travel, exile, homeland and family origin, bringing to the poem the presence of a subject linked to ontological questions.