THE PESSIMISTIC EROTIC IMAGINARY IN THE POETRY OF FRANCISCO ESPINHARA

Abstract

This work highlights the influence and marks of pessimism on the erotic expression of Francisco Espinhara poetic work, corroborating with BATAILLE that the poet under study exacerbated the sentimentality intertwined in his erotic imagination permeated by the loneliness and anguish of contemporary man, as well as says Octávio Paz, “Loneliness is the ultimate bottom of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels lonely and seeks another ”also alone. In this sense, this erotic expression is a preponderant element of his poetic language as a transubstantial element of his desires and frustrations that permeates the real and the imaginary. In this way, we analyze the work of the Pernambuco author from the perspective of the distinctive elements of sensuality and eroticism as particularities of a literary action that covers the world of negativities, as we have in much of contemporary Brazilian poetry.