Analysis of the poem Ou isto ou aquilo by Cecília Meireles

Or poem Ou isto ou here, including a work that leads to the same name, published in 1964, is one of the greatest creations by Cecília Meireles (1901-1964) and fala on the difficulty of escorting between duas (or more) options.

All escort means a loss, and this is a difficult conclusion that the Brazilian poet presents for the children.

Poem Ou isto ou here na whole

Ou was cool and there was no sun,
You are sunny and you are not cool!
Ou is wedged to luva and not to põe or anel,
ou se põe o anel e não se clça a luva!
Quem over us ares não fica no chão,
It burns no chão não sovereign us.
It is a great pity that it does not pose
be at the same time you give us places!
I keep or money and I don't buy twelve,
ou buy or twelve and spend or money.
Ou isto ou aquilo: ou isto ou aquilo ...
and I live escorting or inteiro day!
No sei jumped, no sei studied,
He came out running or calmly.
But I never managed to understand ainda
qual é melhor: se é isto ou aquilo.

Analysis and interpretation of the poem Ou isto ou here

Written for a children's audience, or a poem Ou isto ou here Fala about a importance of escorts and is identified as an indecisive condition of the child.

The verses show how you escort you obrigatórias, not escort já e fazer uma escolha, not possible to escape from situations that appear to us day by day.

Therefore, I live to choose different paths, and that is the difficulty of which one cannot escape, which Cecília Meireles shows to young readers.

Or gera poem identification as a child, what begins to be presented to the dilemmas of life as it grows crescendo: jump or study? Running or running low?

Through poetry, the reader is becoming aware that, many times, it is necessary to open more than one thing that is loved, and another thing that is also desired. Frequently we find ourselves in situations where it is necessary to sacrifice something to achieve another hypothesis.

The verses of Cecília Meireles are very important didactic function e teach young years - also taking advantage of me to re-seed adults - that we must oil that, ao escort, we will always lose what was not escolhido.

Escolher é, therefore, of a certain form, synonymous with sofrer, and Ou isto ou here It helps us to oil incompleteness, to process in default and to settle for We can't do what we want.

Through poetry, criança understands, as practical examples, the consequences of the escort: “it fits luva and does not wear or anel / ou can or does not fit luva!”. Small situations, such as the necessity of choosing to have light or anel hair, illustrate many difficulties that we, readers, will find as we get up from bed.

The examples given by Cecília Meireles are purposely illustrative, very visual and everyday (present in childhood universe). The elements that all children can be related to quickly, facilitating their understanding of the dilemma that was introduced.

Ouça or poem Ou isto ou here

Livro Ou isto ou here

Released in 1964, or free Ou isto ou here gathers 57 poems. A classic work of Brazilian literature for children and adolescents that you see going through gerações.

Na coletânea, Cecília Meireles - who was a teacher of infant education - jumps with words and introduces the world to children from a slight and simple olhar.

The poems trace everyday and practical examples as those quais a criança can easily be related.

Another element common to different children is that, in all the poems, they have a lot of use of repetition and we try to achieve a musicality in order to facilitate memorization.

Ou isto ou here Fala about the infantile universe: you jogos, a relationship between as children, as brincadeiras, the dilemmas that you are facing. In spite of many slight issues, the work also does not include complicated issues such as solidão, or medium and anguish. Embora sejam questões that are difficult to be addressed as children, the issues are presented with delicacy, or that facilitates absorption.

O livro also rich because it brings together various genres of composition such as cantigas de ninar, parlengas and trava-linguas.

Conheça also

• The imperdíveis poems of Cecília Meireles
• The poems of Cecília Meireles for crianças
• Analysis of the poem Portrait, by Cecília Meireles
• Poem Leilão de Jardim, by Cecília Meireles
• Poem A Bailarina, by Cecília Meireles

Formed in Literature at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (2010), Master of Literature at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2013) and doutora in Studies of Culture of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and of the Portuguese Catholic University of Lisbon (2018).