Legitimação da Violência do Estado Pombalino na Poesia Atribuída a Alvarenga Peixoto

Abstract

THE VALIDATION OF VIOLENCE FROM THE POMBALINE STATE AS PORTRAYED IN THE POETRY ASCRIBED TO ALVARENGA PEIXOTO This paper presents a discussion about the way the theme of violence is represented in the poetry attributed to Alvarenga Peixoto, in order to demonstrate its coherency and cohesion in relation to literate and political assumptions of the late 18th century. During the discussion, his famous Ode to Marquis of Pombal will be analyzed and related to other four poems in wich this theme is recurrent.

Keywords

• Alvarenga Peixoto
• 18th century
• violence
• Ancien Régime
• colonial poetry