Tempo, interioridade e morte: a poética existencial em "Canto de outono" e "Solidão na cidade", de Ruy Belo

Abstract

In Ruy Belo’s work, poetry invokes a profound meditative step in relation to the flow of meaning we give to things. Time, the everyday life that surrounds us, the space around us, people are part of a construct that shapes, destroys, and rebuilds our perception of the world and ourselves at every moment. Based on this, we aim to investigate the configuration of lyricism present in the poems “Canto de outono” (Autumn Song) and “Solidão na cidade” (Loneliness in the City), featured in the work Transporte no tempo (Transport in Time) by Ruy Belo (2017), to unravel, in dialogue with Martin Heidegger’s phenomenological-hermeneutic ontological method, a possible approach to human essence, in the sense of searching for this lost meaning. To this end, we outlined a historical parameter on 20th-century Portuguese literature, drawing on the studies of Eduardo Lourenço and Rosa Maria Martelo, in particular, with a view to contextualizing the literary moment that Portugal was experiencing. In this regard, we also note the essayist Ruy Belo (2002), in Na senda da poesia, a work in which he exemplifies some of his perspectives on poíesis.