O PROCESSO EXPIATÓRIO DE A ROSA DO POVO, DE CARLOS DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE

Abstract

This article aims at studying the theme of ritual atonement in Carlos Drummond de Andrade’s A rosa do povo (1945) through a cross-sectional analysis of the work. Thereby, guilt and ritual self-destruction, nocturnal atonement, and death and life of the words are set as a reading perspective about the significance of the lyrical subject, the time, and the metapoetry, respectively. Thus, this article searches to interpret the relation between social commitment and reflection on poetic form in A rosa do povo in the context of Brazilian modernist poetry.