A ironia e o humor mórbido como estratégias poéticas em Eu, de Augusto dos Anjos

Abstract

One of the most remembered elements in relation to the poetry of Augusto dos Anjos is his obsessive fixation on the thematic of grotesque, pessimistic and agonic about the life, fated to the disillusion and death, exposed in an disquieting language and loaded with scientific terms that highlight their critic unveil about the human miseries and unhappinesses. However, it is possible to identify in the anjosian work an irony, associated to the morbid humor, as part of a poetic device, expression (and strategy) metaphorical characteristic. In EU (1912), it is perceived, in the words of the poet himself, an ―infaust irony‖ about a universe of accentuated transformations and contradictions. The irony, in ―saying the opposite of what is being said‖, binds directly to the humor (mockery, confrontation, sarcasm) also on the morbid and suffering, unveiled in the anjosian lyricism which unmasks/presents the grotesque and the ruins; it bothers, attracts and is presented as confrontation connected to laughter. The objective of this paper is to show that, in Augusto dos Anjos, the morbid humor and the irony become strategies to surprise and also to convene the poetic, nuisance to the senses, and that tries to move away the terror of suffering and death by the art that poetry admits. Augusto dos Anjos presents in the ironic parade, the grotesque, the ugliness, the death and confronts these ―enemies‖ with the hidden laughter, veiled, in his poetry.