OBLIQUE WAYS OF TRANSCENDENCE: ASPECTS OF IDEALISM IN AUGUSTO DOS ANJOS AND PEDRO KILKERRY

Authors

  • Fabiano Rodrigo da Silva Santos UNESP

Keywords:

Brazilian poetry, romantic idealism, modernity, sublime.

Abstract

This essay analyzes the manifestations of the idealism of romantic orientation in the poetry of Augusto dos Anjos and Pedro Kilkerry, showing the points of contact between their oeuvres and demonstrating that many of the innovative aesthetic procedures of their poetry appear as a reaction to urgencies of an idealistic conception of poetry. Augusto dos Anjos and Pedro Kilkerry attest the anxiety of apprehension of connections with a super-sensible sphere in phenomenal reality. Although this takes a different form in each of the poets, it can refer to a common poetic ideal that transcends the concrete reality. To accomplish this, they use aesthetic procedures that modernize the language of the romantic sublime – Augusto dos Anjos uses a hybrid philosophical repertoire that marks his poetry with a tense and innovative prosaic language, and Pedro Kilkerry opts for the indirect representation, made by an evocative and metonymic language, that evidences the mystery of the transcendent ideal without deciphering it.

Author Biography

Fabiano Rodrigo da Silva Santos, UNESP

Professor assistente-doutor da Universidade Estadual Paulista, campus de Assis. Entre seus ensaios recentemente publicados, figuram “O silêncio da pedra: breves considerações sobre o nada, o silêncio e as ausências em A pedra do sono, de João Cabral de Melo Neto” (Revista Travessias) e “Um estranho no Parnaso” (Revista Literatura em debate).

Published

2014-12-19

How to Cite

Santos, F. R. da S. (2014). OBLIQUE WAYS OF TRANSCENDENCE: ASPECTS OF IDEALISM IN AUGUSTO DOS ANJOS AND PEDRO KILKERRY. MATRAGA - Journal Published by the Graduate Program in Letters at Rio De Janeiro State University (UERJ), 21(35). Retrieved from https://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/matraga/article/view/17487