Roteiros e paisagens literárias: leituras dos poemas de viagem de Cecília Meireles e Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

Abstract

Considering the relations between literature and travel in the 20th century, a comparative reading of the travel poems by Cecília Meireles and Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen is carried out, considering common itineraries figured by the authors, in particular, Portugal, Italy and India. Based on the idea of “travel as a place”, proposed by Ana Paula Manga (2007), we seek to reflect on the spaces shared by the poetry of Cecília and Sophia, observing how the landscapes of such routes achieved become poetic material for the authors, delimiting approaches and distant, expressive and formal, and, in this way, seeking to identify how his works articulate travel experiences based on a certain shared ethics. To do so, we carried out a survey of critical texts and a brief theoretical review on the subject of travel in literature, seeking approximations between poetry and travel; and then we started the readings, notes and comparative analyzes between the poems chosen for the corpus of this work. The texts evidenced the lyrical strength of the poetic language of both authors and the memory transfiguration procedure, so that it was possible to perceive the ways in which they were related to the trip as an experience of learning and knowledge, a wandering that is dictated by the rhythm of the traveler’s attentive gaze, as opposed to the unbridled pace that modernity imposes on life and the relationship with spaces. In this sense, the “lyrical gaze” is opposed to the reification of experience and is projected onto spaces as a creative and poetic impulse.