Valéria Mac Knight - programa de pós-graduação em ciência da ...

ABSTRACT
Some thinking on modern and contemporaneous poetry is unfolded having as its main
theoretical foundation some ideas developed by Michel Collot. The fundaments of liric art
and its transformations are developed as well as its main theme – non subjective lyrical poetry
– which led us to find in Nietzsche a starting point, due to the fact that this philosopher finds
in art, a solution for the lack of enchantment associated with human existence. We focus on
the lyric poetry transformations throughout the centuries: from an anachronic point of view of
this process, we have searched, and were able to verify, that lyrical poetry was not always
subjective, what confirms Collot’s proposition in his text Le sujet lyrique hors-de-soi, where
he states that lyrism is not in the subjective, and that maybe this subjective period was the
exception and not the rule. The change from the subjective concept of lyrism to an objective
one is approached within some insistence, aiming at presenting the idea enchainment which
leads to the understanding that the poet, out of himself, may report himself to the world as
another, in language. Not one author was chosen but several, and the criteria for this choice
was to intertwine poetical theory and practice from those who were able to subvert reality and
introduce some enchantment in daily life, making new horizons possible in their writings. The
theme Horizon is developed according to Husserl’s point of view and his concept of Horizon
Structure. By analogy, the horizon of writing is the paradox of the representation of the real
by language, a fiction pattern shared by several subjects anachronically, writing crosses
centuries and breaks with distances, making worlds closer, pushing away, but also coming
closer to ourselves; the human being may at last, unfold his/her reflection on existence and
his/her report to the world, confirming that literature is life.
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