Chega mais perto e contempla as palavras: os modos de representação em A Rosa do Povo

Abstract

The poetry of Carlos Drummond de Andrade (CDA), as a form of representation, is the object of this research that has the proposal of analyzing seven poems from A Rosa do Povo (1945) based on the semiotics developed by the North American Charles Sanders Peirce in the end of the nineteenth-century. Our central question is: which aesthetic effects are provoked by the iconic, indicial and symbolic forms of representation in these poems of Drummond? The application of Peircean semiotics to the work of CDA expands the reading possibilities of his poetry, as long as it highlights the process of representation and ratifies the poet’s craft with language, showing that in A Rosa do Povo he explores the icon, the index and the symbol in a very balanced way, using the various signifying potentialities of the word.