Os quatro elementos e a imagem poética em Cecília Meireles.

Abstract

This dissertation aims to analyze the poetic images that occur in poems written by Cecília Meireles, related to the four elements: fire, water, air and earth. As theoretical basis, the philosopher Gaston Bachelard was used, once in his studies he researched about the imaginary, the poetic image, the reverberation and resonance, the reverie, as well as published researchs relative to the four elements, regarding their characteristics and their interaction with the poetic images, theory that was used as basis for the analysis of Cecília Meireles' poems. Therefore, the reading of the writer's poetic work was performed and the poems were verified accordingly to the predominant element in the text. Following, the selection of poems was performed, based on the fact that they should have in their structure the predominance of one of the four bachelardian elements. That analysis revealed the interaction between the element in question and the poetic image, as well as the pertinence of the theory presented by Gaston Bachelard to the approach of Cecília Meireles' poems.