Os bens maiores: memória e melancolia na lírica de Ruy Espinheira Filho

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the present memory and melancholy ipresent in some poems byn Ruy Espinheira Filho, taken from books Poesia Reunida e Inéditos (1998), Elegia de Agosto e outros poemas (2005), Sob o céu de Samarcanda (2009), Livro de canções e inéditos (2011) e Viagem e outros poemas (2011). The choice of these works was due to the fact that they have almost all the poems published by the author to the present year of the dissertation. The methodology used was analysis of form and content of some poems in order to realize that despite the common sense to believe in nostalgia mode memory idea, the poems of the Bahian poet analyzed go the opposite way to that vision, revealing the pain that the past still dating, and even specific bibliographic research about the related topics in this thesis, in this case, memory and melancholy in the work of Ruy Espinheira Filho and poetry, especially contemporary. The lyrical I do not want to relive the past tense, but recognizes that their identity is formed from their experiences. We know that the past is never returned or revived in the present as it was, but the memory can be recovered, albeit selectively, forgetting and / or adding elements a time that no longer remains. The lyrical poems in the analyzed reveals a human frailty, has the death as the only sure, but not to have a past and settled back to him through the memories, even if for this need to suffer again. He feels stuck in the past, for this be your life or unresolved issues, which are still present. In reflecting on the losses obtained in time, the lyrical subject feels self-absorbed, becoming a being melancholy and therefore memoirist.