Abstract
Pau-Brasil (1925), by Oswald de Andrade, and Boitempo (1968), by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, are threshold works, as they stand respectively at the opening and closing of the intermittent modernist era of Brazilian literature. Also, the two collections of poems revisit the colonial and oligarchic past, building unique interpretations of Brazilian history. In this sense, we start from the assumption that they build internally, each in its own way, their own historicity, defined from a composite time. This article intends to carry out a comparative reading between the two works, to investigate the way in which they rethink, in a poetic way, structural elements of our historical and social formation.
Keywords:
Modernism; Memorialism; Historicity; Authoritarianism; Poetry