Morte e Vida Severina: analysis and interpretation

Morte e Vida Severina It is a poem by the Brazilian writer João Cabral de Melo Neto.

A work was written between 1954 and 1955 and tells the story of Severino, a retreat among so many others.

I summarize

In this work, João Cabral de Melo Neto presents the death and life journey of the retired Severino.

Severino é um among many others, that feared the same nome, the same big head and the same tragic destiny of the sertão: to die from an ambush before two twenty years, from velhice before two thirties of foment a little every day.

Severino travels or sertão in search of a life expectancy on the coast. The poem can be divided into two parts: first as your path or Recife and second as your check-in and stay in the capital of Pernambuco.

Or course of Severino in details

Or beginning of tragedy

The first part of the narrative is marked by constant presence gives death, it does not give me the rugged landscape and the hard stone.

Death is also hard and always related to poverty and work. Ou é morte killed in ambush, for a hard time terra trabalhada, ou é morte miserável, in which no one belongs.

_ He says that I lift some
não coisas:
fome, headquarters, privacy

Num place em what or work to death, a morte é o work more certain.

It does not give me misery from the sertão, Severino finds a senhora in a house that is most packed and resolves to ask for work, but no work to burn me with the coisas da terra.

_ As here to die is so much,
only possible to work
nessas profissões que fazem
da morte trade ou bazaar.

In need of leaving in search of new opportunities

As Severino approaches the coastline, he begins to land more mole, but more to death. Or it only becomes more fertile and large, more, even more abundant, a landscape and empty of people.

The retiring person accredits that the reason for the place is empty and that a rich land that it is not necessary to work all day. The crê ter chegado in a place where death opens e não e severina life.

I deceive daqui people
jamais turns thirty
nem knows how to die in life,
vida em morte, severina;
e that cemitério ali,
white on green hill
decerto little works
e poucas covas aninha

Or that a worker's funeral narration follows.

Severino was deceived by a small cemetery receiving deadly many. It is only small because it covas são rasa e estreitas. Severino escuta or what you workers say to me dead.

_ Essa cova em who are you,
with measure span,
é a lower count
that you threw in life.

(...)

_ Não é cova grande,
é cova measure,
what did you want?
view divided.

Or social and political character not part of the poem and remarkable. Or funeral of a lavrador is a burial of that trabalhou to life all in terra alheia living in misery and being explored.

O worker, who only wanted a piece of terra seu to work, ends up dead. The only land that fears a little terra da sua cova.

To life not Recife

A charge to the capital of Pernambuco continues to be marked by death and misery, more or less and totally new. Ao you invest in dry stone terraces, or place gives poverty and, consequently, gives death, or mangue. As elongated terraces that are inhabited retreating hairs.

Fugindo da seca, da morte e da terra de pedra, the various Severinos chegam à Recife onde continuam marginalized. Destined to nursery misery, still surrounded by death, but in different solos, water cheios.

Or despair

The retreats continue to nursery ground, but instead of ficarem covers of poeira de arar or only dry, ficam covers of caçar caranguejos not mangue.

Diante do sordid cenário, or suicide seems like a boa option, interrupt life that também é morte severina.

A solution and apprehend
to die to decide
and ask this river,
see me too on top,
What did I do that I buried?
what or coveiro descrevia:
caixão macio de lama,
mortalha macia e liquid

At this moment or course of the narrative it seems to have been passed to the end. Severino correu o sertão where he only found death. Ao chegar no final do rosário, give his penance, he hopes to find redemption, porém voltou to find death.

Not at the moment that Severino is thinking of throwing himself into his own life, he found José, a mangue dweller. Or that a dialogue about a miserly life that is experienced will not be e us from Recife. A conversation is dead that, no matter how advertised, it seems to be goodbye to live more days of cooking.

A conversation and interrupted hair I announce the birth of José's filho, that it is a moment of epiphany not a poem. Or subtitle of the poem Natal car e o nome do pai José is a clear reference to the birth of Jesus.

Or Natal Car

First chegam os vizinhos e duas ciganas. As people trazem present for menino, as well as the three three magicians. So we present you simple, lembranças of poor people. São dezesseis present, quase all preceded by the phrase: "Minha poverty é tal".

Após to deliver two presents, as duas ciganas divinham or future do menino. At first glance, a forecast of the work of the mangue, or the same hard work in meio à lama. On the second side, an outra forecast, on the industrial worker, covered with graxa preta and no lama.

Thus, the provisions are made for a simple worker, a misery of the mangue, a less miserly factory, but in the same way a worker. Next, the vizinhos descrevem or new-born, a small child, ainda fraca, more saudável.

Severino and José resumed the dialogue, and the epiphany and announced pela boca do novo pai.

No response has been made
that the show gives life:
see the parade seu fio,
that too chama vida,
see the factory that the same,
fearfully, it is manufactured,
see it sprout like little
in nova life exploded;
just when i'm little

OR Natal car Complete physics as the birth of men.

Or course of Severino, same being surrounded by death, ends as a life that insists on flowers, on meio to so much misery and death.

Analyze Morte e Vida Severina

Presentation and form

Morte e Vida Severina It is a tragic poem that presents us with a car from a native of Pernambuco.

O hero Severino is a retreat who foge da seca e da fome, porém, only found to die in his escape. I attached that the presence or birth of a line of retirees, severinos equal to him. Or born and presented in the form of a presépio, received by people to present or new-born.

Um auto é um subgenre of dramatic literature, which arose in medieval Spain. In the Portuguese language or his senior speaker was Gil Vicente. Em Morte e Vida Severina We observe the same resources used as medieval cars.

The work is divided into 18 parts. Before each part there is a small presentation of what will happen - or even we can find us medieval cars. Or poem começa com apresentação de Severino.

OR WITHDRAWAL EXPLAINS TO OR LEITOR BURN IT AND WHAT I AM GOING TO

- O meu nome é Severino,
as I do not have another of pia.
As there are many Severines,
that is a saint of Romaria,
deram então de me chamar
Severino de Maria;

(...)

We are many Severinos
you are still in life:
na mesma big head
that a custody that balances

Severino introduces himself as um em muitos ("iguais em tudo na vida"). To his individuality, he is annulled and or his name becomes an adjective and no title of the work. In fashion two medieval cars, or personage becomes an allegory, a representation of something that is greater than it.

The verses of the poem are short and very sonorous. A majority contains seven poetic syllables, also known as a minor round, another characteristic of two cars.

Constant repetition of verses It is a very ferment used by João Cabral. Besides serving as semantic reinforcement for the theme, it promotes homophony and repetition of sons, which gives a higher musicality of years verses.

- What are you doing,
give us souls,
embroiled nessa rede?
I said that he knew.

- To um of nothing,
irmão das souls,

TO sound of the poem It is a very important element in this work. His reading of him becomes quase sung, a common ferramenta when written was not spread.

A sound served as a way to facilitate the memorization of poetry. This format also lends poetry to string. I know that João Cabral from Melo Neto will read it out loud for the officials of the farm some cordéis.

Space and theme

Either space and theme are intimately linked to this poem. The work deals with viagem de um retreat do interior do Pernambuco até or Recife, where is constantly coming to death.

O fio conductor of the trajeto é o Rio Capiberibe, which must be a certain route from the interior to the coast:

I thought I followed or laughed
eu jamais would lose me:
ele é o caminho more certain,
of all or melhor guide.

Ao long day, Severino found several times to die. Killed by fome, by ambush or by velhice before thirty. O sertão é o espaço e a morte é o theme, you two walk together ao long do river. Até or own river também morre.

More how do I do it
What interrupts you to descend?
Vejo que or Capibaribe,
as you laughed at the top,
é tão poor that nem always
I can meet your sina

Or the course of the river can be compared to the course of life not sertão, which is fragile many times is interrupted.

Severino is waiting to die many times. Da first time or deceased and charged numa rede by other homens. Or deceased morreu de morte killed in an ambush caused by someone who wanted to kill him.

Depois, Severino is coming together as a deceased being veiled in a modest residence. I continue to travel, trying to get work in a small village, to death it appears again, but as the only source of income for which I wanted to live.

More from the coast, Severino is frightened by the terra mais macia, cheia de cana and acha that is a good place to work. Porém, attend a lavrador's funeral.

- Since I am withdrawing
only to die old man,
só a morte deparei
This time it is festive;
só a morte i found you
that I was going to find life,

Adaptation of the history for the quadrinhos

The cartoonist Miguel Falcão resolved to adapt to the story narrated by João Cabral de Melo Neto for a linguagem of 3D animation in black and white.

Or beautiful result of the empreinada can be conferred online:

Read or poem in full

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Written context of Morte e Vida Severina: a Geração de 45

João Cabral de Melo Neto fez part da Generation of 45, to the third modernist phase. Nessa geração, mainly poetry, it is difficult to encaixar authors within literary currents. In a wide spectrum, it is possible to say that poetry left from being so intimate, passing to a greater formalism.

A poetry by João Cabral is exemplary of this aspect. Engenheiro de formação, or encaixava poet words like a constructor assenta tijolos. TO dry syntax e you short verses two emblematic poems by João Cabral.

Se na poetry or themes are varied, na prose seems to coexist duas vertentes: an intimate turned to o flow of consciousness, I have Clarice Lispector as Senior Representative; It is another that deepens the questões of regionalist prose two years 30, having Guimarães Rosa as the senior speaker.

O fim gives Getúlio Vargas's statement promoting a social openness. A Geração de 45 foi também Engaged us, you social themes e com big involvement in politics.

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