Quando à poesia recorda seu passado - Análise de três fragmentos de Safo de Lesbos

Abstract

Sappho's poetry is a unique case in archaic Greece, in a world where narrative voices prevailed. It can be said that Sappho is part of what, from the 7th century onward, was called lyric poetry. A different literary practice emerged, at a time when literary art gained form and expression, not just dealing with tradition and culture, but addressing feelings. Here stands out Sappho of Lesbos, the poet we will discuss throughout the dissertation; we know very little about the cultural context in which this voice emerged and the challenges it faced to express itself. The aim of this dissertation is to provide an overview of the debate on the role of recollection/remembrance in the expression of Sappho's lyric or melic poetry, observing, among other aspects, what can be seen as a sign of tradition. We will address the poet in particular, what the act of remembering means in this context and how it refers to earlier times and affects later contexts. The choice of this theme is due to our interest in ancient Greek poetry as a precursor of Western poetic expression in general. Our theoretical contributions are based on scholars such as Werner Jaeger (1995); André Bonnard (1966); Emil Staiger (1975); Giuliana Ragusa (2013); Roosevelt Rocha (2012). In addition to the aforementioned theorists, we will discuss researchers such as Odi Alexander Rocha da Silva (2013), among others. The methodology used in this study is predominantly qualitative, bibliographic, and involves document analysis (SALVADOR, 1981).