Prenda que se ganha em lamento

Abstract

After the publication of A rosa do povo, in 1945, there was a notable thematic and stylistic inflection in Drummond’s poetry, in whose production there is a noticeable detachment from contemporary events and social histories, elaborating, from that, a poetic focused on more abstract materials, of a universalizing or metaphysical character. In this period, there is also the deepening of a melancholy behavior of the drummondian loving poetic subject, in whose singing the allusion to ambiguity and to the phantasmagoric essence of love intensifies. In this essay, we present an analysis of the poem “Escada”, by Fazendeiro do ar (1955), where he reads the movement of interpreting the love experience as a potential phantasmagoria. For it is almost always up to the lover, loving, the loss awareness, to make an amorous poem an elegiac song, where, ambiguously, the love and the poem can be experienced in its precariousness and invitation to dissolution, to phantasmagoria