To see and to write: intersemiotic transit in poetry

Abstract

This paper aims at discussing the question of visuality in Portuguese Literature of Modernity and concentrates its focus on the branch of compositions created from the transposition of the pictorial language into a verbal one. Taking “Un coup de dés” by Mallarmé, as a seminal text of poetic experiment, it reflects on the process of translation from the Dutch painter’s canvas to poetry, throughout the analysis of the poem “The yellow chair, by Van Gogh”, written by Jorge de Sena.