Vive! e lembra-te de mim

Abstract

This paper focuses especially on the interpretative analysis of the poem “Visitante” (“The visitor”), by Cecília Meireles, included in Vaga música (1939). Some of her poetic traits are expressed in these verses, such as the questioning of the possibility of communication between the subject and his/her listener or between the poet and his/her reader. The poem also reflects upon artistic composition. It manifests a doubt in regard to the welcoming and understanding of poetry in the world today. The poem obliquely refers to a time hostile to the author’s desire to accomplish a “reinvented life” through imagination.