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“A loja feminina” by Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Abstract

This article proposes another way of looking Drummond’s poetry through the analysis of “A loja feminina”. Based on a montage methodology of times, genres and different artistic languages, we seek to open, in a ghostly and erotic way (without forgetting the ambiguity of eroticism seen by Georges Bataille), a poem that, in a scenic game of mirrors, artifices and ornaments, explores the fascination of the word made image, the image made word. At the denouement of the dramatic scene, reader and poet dissolve into the “enigma of permuting forms” to remain as one more, among others, names of the Nymph, this singular theoretical character of Aby Warburg, re-proposed in contemporary times by Georges Didi-Huberman, spectral presence invading the verses. In the late movements of this unstable poetic work, we discover a more intense life – the life of images, thought by names as Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, Giorgio Agamben and Emanuele Coccia.