O pensamento utópico na poesia modernista: Mário de Andrade e T.S. Eliot

Abstract

This work discusses the conception of Utopia from its emergence in literature, focusing its expression on the modernist poetry produced by two poets: Mário de Andrade, in Brazil, and T. S. Eliot, in England. The aim of this study is to entail the utopist thought of such artists to their own dissatisfactions concerning the socio-political conditions of the cities they lived in. For that sake, two poems, The drove, by Mário de Andrade; and a passage of The waste land, by T. S. Eliot, were analyzed in a comparative approach, involving the same historical moment and date in which the texts were written, namely, 1922.