“At the Root of the Tears”: Cecília Meireles and the Hidden God

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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-8133.opiniaes.2022.194663

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Cecília Meireles, Poetry, Phenomenology, Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, Zen Buddhism

Abstract

“If there were no mountains / If there were no walls”, the opening verses of the book 'Canções' (1956), by Cecília Meireles, show the perception of the obstacles that are found in the process of investigating one's own consciousness. This article does a phenomenological reading of the book in question and makes a brief analysis of other books by the author in search of the “forms of God” present in her vast poetry. From verses that talk about self-recognition and self-ignorance, the article analyzes images that build worlds and dissolve them, giving poetic body to the difficult effort of walking through the mind’s labyrinths. This process leads to a hidden God. The theoretical support for the discussion is phenomenology, both according to the concepts developed by Edmund Husserl and by his peers in Indian thought from the Sanskrit tradition, such as the Yoga Sutra (by Patanjali), and in Zen Buddhism.

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Author Biography

  • Camila Marchioro, Federal University of Paraná

    Doutora em Letras pela UFPR; professora do Programa de Pós-graduação em Teoria Literária da UNIANDRADE e professora substituta de Literatura Brasileira e Teoria Literária do curso de Letras da UFPR. Pesquisa literatura brasileira e portuguesa. 

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Published

2022-07-07

How to Cite

Marchioro, C. (2022). “At the Root of the Tears”: Cecília Meireles and the Hidden God. Opiniães, 20, 126-146. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-8133.opiniaes.2022.194663