Conceito de poema: imagens poéticas em viagem, de Cecília Meireles.

Abstract

As a modern poet, Cecília Meireles devoted some space in her work to metalinguistic activity, particularly in the book Viagem (1939), with which she consolidated her poetic maturity and definitively earned her place in the history of Brazilian literature. Although the theme has been explored at times in this work, much remains to be researched. In this sense, this article aims to contribute by continuing the study of how metalinguistic reflection materializes in Cecília's poetry, especially in Viagem. The objective is to identify and analyze the images the poet uses to formulate her concept of poem, drawing on what and how she enunciates about her art and her creative process. The analysis was based on Samira Chalhub's concept of metapoem (2002) and subjected the poems of the work to a stylistic analysis theoretically inspired by Nilce Sant'Anna Martins (2012). The conclusion was that, for Cecília, the poem is song, music, wing, and flower, images that reveal much about the poet's perception of her own creative process. Furthermore, it was observed that the conceptual tendency of Viagem deals not only with the metalinguistic order, but also with questions of an existential nature.