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Luiz Gama turns to oratory and the collective performance of verse. It is the interlocutory theater, the voice projected into thin air to convince (movere) the audience. Machado de Assis prefers reading and intimate contact with text. It is the personal experience, the message that echoes within the reader for subjective satisfaction (delectare). Accordingly, versification gains rhetorical plasticity in Gama and literary stylization in Machado. The former “celebrates with a marimba”, the latter takes from the “wind harp the exalted melody”. This technical opposition of listening and reading poetry, guides the article.
Luiz Gama; Machado de Assis; Brazilian poetry; versification