Nostalgia do passado em Sophia: o fascínio da Grécia

• Autor(a) principal: Ferreira, José Ribeiro
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/mathesis.2006.4631

In this essay my aim is to analyse one of Sophia de Mello Breyner’s favourite poetic issues: her fascination for Greece that is illustrated throughout her poetic work. I refer to Breyner’s interest in the primordial Greece, when gods, human beings and nature lived together. The nostalgia for the past (for childhood or for the ancient Greece) implies that significant importance is given to memory. Memory, thus, acquires a relevant role in this return to and in this remake of time. But, to allow memory evoke this past and unfold the thread of time, silence is required – the silence of the night, the silence of the garden, the silence of the forest, the silence of the beach – and it is necessary to pay attention to things. In other words, it is necessary to be attentive. In sum, it is necessary to live «alert as an antenna», to have «owl’s eyes/In the obscure lucid evening», as Breyner suggests in the poem “Vieira da Silva” from Muse (p. 37).