Tempo (re)tecido em Poesia sem idade, de Jorge Cooper

Abstract

This dissertation builds a critical analysis upon Jorge Cooper’s poetry, aligned, particularly,to the theme of time. The aim is to understand the paths that Cooper’s poetics take in ap- proaching this theme, with rich and long-lasting tradition, relying on other subjects with which it is already familiar, such as: finitude awareness, childhood memory, and loss. Theanalysis focuses on the poet’s second book, Poesia sem idade (1950-1968), considering that this work is crossed by the theme of time and by images that are linked to it. For that,this work discusses the experience of time articulated to language, seeking to understand itfrom the theoretical thought of Paul Ricouer (2019) and reflections on duration by David Lapoujade (2017). In addition, this dissertation reflects on the temporal textures of poetry from a dialogue with theorist Octavio Paz (2003), identifying Cooper's poetics in the con-text of Brazilian poetry at the end of the 20th century, in dialogue with the poetics that preceded it, such as modernism. For this discussion, we work on the theory postulated by Hugo Friederich (1998), Afonso Berardinelli (2007), and Octavio Paz (2013). To think about the images of death and childhood that are sewn to the time (re)woven in the work, a dialogue with Philippe Ariès (2003) and Gaston Bachelard (2018) is proposed. The re- search is also based on the critical reception of the author from Alagoas, which is a centralpiece to the comprehension of Cooper’s poetics.