Itabira nos versos de Drummond: poesia, memória e história

Abstract

This work aims at the analysis of Boitempo (1968), which unfolds in Boitempo II – Menino Antigo (1973) and Boitempo III – Esquecer para lembrar (1979), by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, in order to study the ways in which the memorable poem, representative of one of the lines of force of the Drummondian poetry, allows to displace images of the past, referring to the signs of the province of Minas Gerais and communicating with the modern history of the nation. From a formulation grounded in the field of cultural studies according to the “truth” of the modern nation is precisely in its borders, we may think that the subject-of-memory makes Itabira, hometown and ghostly stage of poetic remembrance, a margin of reading and discursive interpellation of his nation.