THE SPACE CERRADO TOLD THROUGH VERSES, STANZAS AND RHYMES: A READING PERFORMED BY PLACE’S PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

Place is one of the category of analysis of Geography, as its reading becomes relevant because it analyzes the experienced, constructed and reconstructed space through the individuals in their relations with space, giving it meanings and affectivity. This work highlighted another way of interpreting the place Cerrado, through poems and poetries. The Cerrado biome covers about 2 million km2, equivalent to almost a quarter of the national territory, being the second largest Brazilian plant formation and also the richest and most threatened on the planet tropical savanna. Thereby, passages and verses of some poems and poetries that exemplify Cerrado’s reading as a place, in other words, as a space endowed with meaning assigned by individuals who lived there and experience were chosen. Many compositions are tributes to places, who were and still are their homes, where they lived, sheltered, protected themselves and were designed for the "world". It is in space that writers/authors fing the genesis of inspiration, through observing and internalizing characteristics of their social and natural environment, constituting the raw material for their creation, which lastly end up being expressed through the verses, stanzas and rhymes.