Abstract:
This work focuses on a conception of poetic art which captures the natural elements as deeper signals of extract. By covering the images with a symbolic load, the poet promotes, according to Bachelard, a new experience with language and revives a new psychism, besides overlapping diverse worlds and crossing past and future experiences. The provocation to the development of this theme comes from the poems “Poetas e insetos”, “Falcões” and “As formas prisioneiras”, by Dora Ferreira da Silva (1918–2006). In this poet, the conversion from signals into symbols operated by the poetic text finds resonance in the theories of Jung and Durand, who comprehend the symbol – the result from culture and subjective pressures – as responsible for the dynamism of the artistic object, whose meaning is incessant. The development of this study is made through the analyses of the poems, concepts of images and symbol and an overview of the history of the imaginary in the West.
Keywords:
Image; symbol; Dora Ferreira da Silva; Bachelard; Jung