A passagem do tempo na obra Poema Sujo de Ferreira Gullar

Abstract

Dirty Poem (1976) was written in Buenos Aires, where Ferreira Gullar was exiled. The opposition between past and present is constant: the speaker demonstrates displeasure with the present and nostalgia of the past. The passage of time permeates the whole poem, but it is notable in three moments: 1) life, 2) the day and the night, 3) the city. The book can be read as a critique of the dictatorship through an insistent retreat to the past as a strategy to deny and question the “dirty” moment of Brazil in the 1970s.