A Representação da Natureza na poesia de Emily Dickinson e Cecília Méírėles e uma proposta de leitura na Internet

Abstract

The present paper comprises two main objectives, one in the field of literary criticism, the other in the area of education: 1) to compare Emily Dickinson's to Cecília Meireles's poems about the representation of earth in the approach to nature; 2) to create a website for the reading of such poems, providing a study of poetic language accessible to high-school students. In order to carry out the comparative analysis, we will adopt complementary poetical views: 1) François Rastier's isotopy theory as adapted by João Batista B. de Brito in his book Signo e Imagem em Castro Pinto, which focuses on the semantic context; 2) Samuel Levin's coupling theory, that identifies equivalent phonic, semantic and syntactic features; 3) Gaston Bachelard's law of material imagination, which classifies nature representation according to four primordial elements: earth, water, fire and air; 4) earth representation according to Plato's dialogue Timeu, in which the four elements of the material world are discussed. This research in the field of Comparative Literature does not intend either to imply any influence of Emily Dickinson's poetry on Cecília Meireles's or to gather biographical and historical data that may justify their thematic choice. Our aim is to reveal similarities and divergences in the representation of earth that characterize the writers' poetry about nature.