Viajando no trem de Alagoas: vivência com um poema de Ascenso Ferreira em sala de aula.

Abstract

this article aims at describing an experience of reading taken by elementary school students with the poem “Alagoas Train,” written by the Brazilian poet called Ascenso Ferreira. The students are ninth graders ofa public school located in the city of Campina Grande. Integrating a broader study, our proposal aims at evincing that the dialogical methodology is probably the most suitable one to approach the referred poem, especially when it comes to the formation of the reader o f literary texts. Moreover, the research shows the necessity to exploit more systematically the aesthetic fruition text in the classroom.