A Cidade Moderna e a busca de um território para a poesia

Abstract

The reading of the following poems by Mário de Andrade: "Rua de São Bento” "Paisagem N° 1” "Paisagem N° 2" "Paisagem N° 3" and "Paisagem N° 4" suggests to us a search o f a locus poesiae by the lyrical self, who rejects the modem city as this locus. In a dialectics of attraction and repulse, the lyrical self accepts in the end the metropolis as the territory of "minha Loucura" and reaches the point of integrating himself in it