But there are no others: images of the self and the world in Carlos Drummond de Andrade and Emily Dickinson

Abstract

This study seeks to put the poetic creations of Carlos Drummond de Andrade and Emily Dickinson in a dialogue, especially from the point of view of the processes of intensification of reality, strangeness and singularization, which they present in the process of creating images and in the re-thinking they present around poetic making. Through the privileging of the comparative method, special attention is paid to concepts such as minimum, finite, matter and residual, as well as the repeated presence, at different stages of the two authors’ creation, of the perspective of a vision of the ground, inseparable from a particular way of absorbing the world and thinking about poetic creation from the inside, seeking to break with processes of idealization and mythification of reality and rethinking elements such as time and space. The dialog between concision and fluidity, which is also vital to both poetics, will also be addressed, seeking to see communicating vessels of dialog, but also divergences and singularities that weave the complexity of the two authors.