Os caçadores de prosódias (1994): uma análise semiótica da poesia de Durvalino Couto

Abstract

Poetry is characterized as a way of modeling the language of an era in order to make it capable of expressing a singular effect concerning its aesthetic and cognitive scope. In this sense, this research designs a semiotics analysis of some poems in Os caçadores de prosódias (1994), by Durvalino Couto, focusing on elucidating the process of intersemiosis among visual-verbal signs in order to understand the cognoscibility of the text. The analysis considers the cenopythagorean categories proposed by Charles Peirce (2010, CP, 1931-1958, 8 vols.) and the theoretical framework provided by Castelo Branco and Brito (2016), Deely (1990), Jakobson (2007), Paulo Andrade (2000), Paz (2009), Pignatari (2004), Santaella (2007, 1992), Sebeok (2001), Silva (2008), among others. The study is divided into three parts with three chapters each. Taking into account the aforementioned theoretical assumptions, it can be realized that Durvalino Couto‘s poetry reveals itself as the intersemiotic translation of the narrator‘s psychological insights into verbal language. The poem unfolds in its syntactic framework an obsistence between word and emptiness making the text visible and cognoscible. The cognoscibility of the poem comprises the iconization of a perceptual constancy of the world. Durvalino Couto‘s poetry reveals a subject that finds himself adrift in the self, the word and destiny. In this transuasive flow, man seeks to satisfy his hunger for himself, for art, for language and for man himself.