Tão boa, tão delicada: a imagem da criança na poesia infantil de Olavo Bilac

Abstract

This research was conducted in order to present the child's view of the context in the nineteenth century, pausing, more specifically, the analysis of moralism outbreaks linked to child behavior in poetry Poesias Infantis (1904), the writer Olavo Bilac. The copy is a historical archive of Brazilian republican school of nineteenth-century period, which has been present for more than five decades in several states of Brazil. We examine the connection established between childhood discovery and the importance given to the child in Brazil, as well as the participation of the poetic genre in this process and the author's contribution in question for the formation of a Brazilian children's literature. Finally, we analyze the specific contents of the poems that make up the book Poesias Infantis (1904), seeking to realize the educational precepts linked to morality facing the childish behavior of the time. To support our work, draw on the Ariès (1978), Postman (1999) and Marcílio (2003), with regard to childhood discovery of the study, and how it took place in Brazil; Arroyo (2011), Lajolo and Zilberman (2007), Souza (2006) and Rabbit (2000; 2010) to understand how the nursery rhyme was present in the daily lives of children. We use Magalhães Júnior (1974) and Simões Junior (2007), about Bilac experience as a poet and educator. Also in subsidize the Lajolo (1982), Coelho (1995), Cordeiro (2005), Hansen (2011) helping the study of our corpus.