Hey, Júlia. Great text, as always. I have a question: do you think that poems can talk to each other? I mean, imagine that we're reading some poems written by the same author, then we notice a word that is often used... Can this word carry meaning through different poems?! I've been thinking a lot about it recently. Like Drummond uses "noite" a lot, and many Brazilian and Portuguese poets love the word "espelho". What do you think?!
I think so, when I read Dylan Thomas' collected poems I've noticed a ubiquitous use of the words "marrow" and "bone" in poems that deal with different themes (mainly sex and death). I see these repetitions as an author's trademark or signature. It can be interesting to delve into all the meanings that these specific words can have, and compare their different uses in different poems - then I think you can discover the particular significance of said word to an author, and find some consistency/pattern in a particular body of work. Have fun investigating!
Hey, Júlia. Great text, as always. I have a question: do you think that poems can talk to each other? I mean, imagine that we're reading some poems written by the same author, then we notice a word that is often used... Can this word carry meaning through different poems?! I've been thinking a lot about it recently. Like Drummond uses "noite" a lot, and many Brazilian and Portuguese poets love the word "espelho". What do you think?!
I think so, when I read Dylan Thomas' collected poems I've noticed a ubiquitous use of the words "marrow" and "bone" in poems that deal with different themes (mainly sex and death). I see these repetitions as an author's trademark or signature. It can be interesting to delve into all the meanings that these specific words can have, and compare their different uses in different poems - then I think you can discover the particular significance of said word to an author, and find some consistency/pattern in a particular body of work. Have fun investigating!