O imaginário da animalidade na poesia de Hilda Hilst: palavra e criação entre pássaros, cães, tigres e cavalos

Abstract

Hilda Hilst (1930-2004), poet, playwright, and fiction writer, strengthened her own literary works by dialoguing with the human psyche deep structures. Dealing with the creative urge of the 20th century contemporary poetry, which depicts humankind ultimate questions in the face of its finite condition before the actions of time and death, Hilst composed in her works an inspiration that retrieves the archetypical aspect of human experiences as well as of the poetic creation, and these attitudes are filled with strain and ambivalence that resemble the animality in its instinctive gestures. In this perspective, the author composed poems that use animality to symbolize a way of expressiveness of the subject in search of the word, as well as the way the subject dresses to break the time through poetry. The animality which include pig, birds, dogs, tigers, horse and the like make it possible to the lyric subject to confront the poetic creation and the finite condition of humankind before the time, by means of the erotic performing that merges the affective search for a totality. Due to poetic creation and certainty of finitude, the affectivity of the imaginary of the animality passes through time and space, and makes it possible to confront the human condition, mortal and time-bound. Thus, the research investigates the poetic enthusiasm that updates myths, images and symbols through the imaginary of the animality, and reassures an old issue: poetry as a means of revealing word and its creation. This research relies on the theoretical basis that consists of Gilbert Durand (2002), Gaston Bachelard (1988a), Carl Gustav Jung (1996), Ana Maria Lisboa de Mello (2002), Maria Zaira Turchi (2003), Alfredo Bosi (2000), and Hugo Friedrich (1978), among other scholars.