O corpo drummondiano em As contradições do corpo e Eu, etiqueta

Abstract

This paper analyzes three poems by the author Carlos Drummond de Andrade, being: “As Contradições do Corpo” and “Eu, Etiqueta”, both belonging to the collection Corpo, published in 1984. The goal is to investigate how the poet created a dynamic of the body as Contradiction and Etiquette; and why, after all, the body is a reason for poetry. Undeniably, the body encompasses both social and subjective issues. This is specifically the point Drummond explores in separating the social body from a subjective body (the self). A corporeality and a body, inseparable and tense. In creating this tension-generating ambiguity, poetry unveils the nature of a subject's connection with himself; an ambiguity that spills over into that subject's relationship with the society in which he is embedded. But which subject? Who is this "I" enunciated in these two poems? Whose body is this? What body? The space of enunciation is not filled. If, according to Benveniste (1974), I is the one who says I, this space still needs to be occupied; the enunciation, therefore, only exists in potency, and the poem would only function after it is filled, since there is no sense that fills it a priori. That is, the regime of historicity of a poem does not occur a priori, since it is conceived by the relation between the space of experience and the horizon of expectation, which makes historicity itself an event. Thus, I seek to understand, especially from Provase (2016) and Safatle (2016), the concepts of historicity and corporeality that emerge from Drummond's poems and how this body is constituted and circulates in this capitalist society.