The only naturally smile that I found was paid

the politics in the poetry of Manoel de Barros

Abstract

The present work analyzes the political aspects on the Manoel de Barros' poetry, by the light of the political-historical facts that surround the set of his poems. The purpose is to demonstrate how, through resources such as parody and neologism, his poetry values an oppressed population and transgresses fixed and automated structures, while criticizes the common sense, the so-called “elevated” poetry, and the reification of man in the bourgeois society. In this way, it intends to provide a new interpretive reading of Manoel de Barros' poetry, filling a gap in his critical work, as noted by Puchel (2015).