The oracular speech of Francisco Carvalho

Abstract

In this article, the poetry of the Brazilian writer Francisco Carvalho is studied from the perspective of its formal acquisitions, considering its temporal development over six decades, and the characteristics of the imaginary that permeates it. Starting from the idea that it is based on a meeting of traditions - in which the echoes of Portuguese Classicism are mixed with a frankly modern language derived from the codes of modernist writing, both amalgamated by the poet's own diction, in which the dialogue between such elements is affirmed as the predominant vector - we seek to understand the way in which certain images of empirical life, with their determinations of time and place, find their contour and finish in the author's poetic word. Life, under these conditions, does not end properly, but neither does it begin, since the opening of the work in the scope of the imaginary expands it in all directions. Thus, a time of exile is established, which will be both the time of myth and imaginary, but also the time of what we call here a prophetic or oracular speech, which cannot be imprisoned by the compartments of reason or memory. The flight of the words always escapes to another dimension, where every enunciation event immediately becomes an opening or an overtaking. The aim of the study, based on the analysis and commentary of Francisco Carvalho's poetic trajectory, is to understand these relationships and question their meaning.