The writing from the stone

Abstract

The article highlights the importance of the image of the stone for the poetry of Carlos Drummond de Andrade and aims to analyze some questions that this element of the poem “In the middle of the path” evokes throughout his work. Among them, the relation of the poet to the society, the crisis of the representation, the fissures of the poetic language. The text briefly reviews the critical reception received by the mentioned poem, one of the most commented in our literature. It also shows how the preoccupation with the question of representation and the discussion around the language have brought density to its reflective poetry, at the same time that allowed him to tune his poetry within his historical and social context.

Keywords

• Carlos Drummond de Andrade
• Crise da representação
• Linguagem poética