Love Flesh/Carne de Amor: Metáforas do homoerotismo em Walt Whitman e em Eugénio de Andrade

• Autor(a) principal: Mancelos, João
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34624/fb.v0i7.6574

«Sex is the root of it all», stated Walt Whitman (1819‑1892). Even though, in his daily life, he kept his sexual orientation secret, the Brooklyn bard sang electric bodies, and male adhesiveness, especially in «Calamus», a section of Leaves of Grass (1855‑1892). Influenced by Whitman both in life and in poetry, Eugénio de Andrade (1923‑2005)approaches homosexual orientation, by resorting to the intertextuality with that North American poet’s literary production; alluding to his love relationship with Peter Doyle; using phallic symbols and similar homoerotic metaphors. In this article, I analyze that intersection of literary and personal likes, which reveals desires and fears, secrets and confidences carefully veiled by metaphors.