Between poetry and prose: Drummond and the Revolution of 30

Abstract

The article tries to develop the hypothesis that the poem of Carlos Drummond de Andrade “Outubro 1930” occupies a strategic position within his work, because the characteristic individualism of his first book begins to prove insufficient. Through analysis, it is suggested that in the mixture of records that characterizes the poem is simultaneously encrypted a crisis of the poet with his lyricism and a timid attempt to open new poetic ways. To reinforce the hypothesis, an extract of a letter from Drummond to Mário de Andrade and an excerpt from a chronicle of Mário are rescued to show how the poet was at that time becoming aware of the precariousness of his position and the need for change. Indirectly, the purpose of the article is to situate this process within the intense ideological movement that agitated our intellectuality in the passage of the decade of 20 to the one of 30, discussing its specificity.