Erotismo do corpo-seda na poesia de João Cabral de Melo Neto

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The article aims to discuss the symbolic investment process in the eroticization game woman/body/silk, in the poetry of João Cabral, taking a look at the poems "A palavra seda" and "Escritos com o corpo", published respectively in the Quaderna and Serial books. The study is documentary, of a descriptive nature and is based not only on the Merleau-Ponty theory, which understands the body as the locus of communication of the being with the world, but also on studies by literary critics who deal with the subject, such as Antonio Carlos Secchin, Benedito Nunes, Costa Lima, Marta de Senna, among others. The text concludes that the female body presents itself, for João Cabral, as a means of communication between the woman and everything that surrounds her, as he is perceived by the poet through the convergences and divergences before the beings of the world (silk, phrase, painting, nudity, memory).

KEYWORDS: Woman. Body. Silk. Eroticism.