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Critical Essay by Robert E. Di Antonio
SOURCE: Di Antonio, Robert E. “The Confessional Mode as a Liberating Force in the Poetics of Carlos Drummond de Andrade.” Quaderni Ibero-Americani 61-2 (1987-87): 201-07.
In the following essay, Di Antonio contends that Drummond reveals his private thoughts often in his poetry, thus engaging the reader in an existential way.
Eternal truths need a human language that alters with the spirit of the times. The primordial images undergo ceaseless transformations and yet ever remain the same …
Carl Gustav Jung1
é sempre possível plantar una semente, acender una esperança
Jorge Amado2
Carlos Drummond de Andrade has long been a powerful literary force within Brazil. He possesses a rare poetic imagination worthy of increased international attention. It is his private realm that the poet is able to communicate and universalize. His writings end in an intimate relationship between reader and poet, defining and exploring the unique nature of contemporary man's existence.
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