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Concluzie : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme 2012
Poetry 2018-03-25 (3061 hits )

Confidența unuia din Itabira : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme
Poetry 2018-06-30 (2971 hits )

Congresul internațional al fricii : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme 2012
Poetry 2018-03-23 (3038 hits )

Creație : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme 2012
Poetry 2018-03-29 (3090 hits )

Descoperire : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme 2012
Poetry 2018-04-09 (3206 hits )

Dezlegarea poetului : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme 2012
Poetry 2018-07-04 (2959 hits )

Eu sufeream când ea-mi spunea : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme
Poetry 2018-06-29 (2924 hits )

Explicație : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme 2012
Poetry 2018-06-29 (2858 hits )

Familie : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme 2012
Poetry 2018-04-11 (2858 hits )

Femeie pășind goală prin casă : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme 2012
Poetry 2018-04-02 (3115 hits )

În mijlocul drumului : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme 2012
Poetry 2018-04-12 (3027 hits )

Îngropatul de viu : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme 2012
Poetry 2018-03-26 (3002 hits )

Inimă multiplă : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme 2012
Poetry 2018-04-11 (2948 hits )

Iubire – amărăciune : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme 2012
Poetry 2018-07-03 (2864 hits )

Iubirea și vremea ei : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme 2012
Poetry 2018-03-29 (3033 hits )

Limba și faptul : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme 2012
Poetry 2018-04-16 (2959 hits )

Lume largă : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme 2012
Poetry 2018-06-30 (2894 hits )

Luptă : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme 2012
Poetry 2018-04-13 (3099 hits )

Mână de mână : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme
Poetry 2018-03-23 (3117 hits )

Materialele vieții : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme 2012
Poetry 2018-04-03 (2913 hits )

Mersul : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme 2012
Poetry 2018-03-27 (3073 hits )

Metafizica corpului : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme
Poetry 2018-07-05 (2875 hits )

Minutul de după : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme 2012
Poetry 2018-04-13 (3069 hits )

Moartea pe cal : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme 2012
Poetry 2018-04-13 (3248 hits )

Morții : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme 2012
Poetry 2018-04-10 (2880 hits )

Moștenire : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme 2012
Poetry 2018-03-23 (3088 hits )

Nu te omorî : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme 2012
Poetry 2018-06-29 (2804 hits )

Nu vreau să fiu ultimul care te halește : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme 2012
Poetry 2018-04-17 (2909 hits )

Opac : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme 2012
Poetry 2018-07-02 (2823 hits )

Ore de franceză : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme
Poetry 2018-07-05 (2834 hits )

Os Ombros Suportam O Mundo :
Poetry 2009-08-20 (7183 hits )

Peisajul: cum se alcătuiește : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme
Poetry 2018-07-04 (2607 hits )

Plinul și golul : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme 2012
Poetry 2018-04-12 (2935 hits )

Poem cu șapte fețe : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme 2012
Poetry 2018-04-12 (2935 hits )

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Poetry 2016-02-14 (5337 hits )

Prăbușire : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme 2012
Poetry 2018-03-27 (3068 hits )

Să te trezești, să trăiești : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme 2012
Poetry 2018-04-02 (2968 hits )

Seară de mai : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme
Poetry 2018-07-03 (2770 hits )

Secret : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme 2012
Poetry 2018-03-24 (3151 hits )

Sentimentul lumii : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme 2012
Poetry 2018-07-07 (2711 hits )

Singură : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme 2012
Poetry 2018-04-03 (3085 hits )

Supraviețuitorul : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme 2012
Poetry 2018-04-10 (2761 hits )

Tentativa : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme
Poetry 2018-07-04 (2883 hits )

Tristețe în cer : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme 2012
Poetry 2018-03-24 (3048 hits )

Unitate : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme 2012
Poetry 2018-04-02 (2928 hits )

Viața după viață : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme 2012
Poetry 2018-03-27 (2635 hits )

Viață minoră : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme
Poetry 2018-07-02 (2383 hits )

Victorie : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme 2012
Poetry 2018-07-05 (2439 hits )

Vreau : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme 2012
Poetry 2018-04-10 (2679 hits )

„A kiss, un baiser, un bacio” : Vol. MAȘINA LUMII și alte poeme 2012
Poetry 2018-07-06 (2500 hits )

Biography Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Born October 31, 1902(1902-10-31)
Itabira, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Died August 17, 1987 (aged 84)
Rio de Janeiro
Occupation Poet
Nationality Brazilian
Literary movement Modernism


Carlos Drummond de Andrade (October 31, 1902 - August 17, 1987) was perhaps the most influential Brazilian poet of the 20th century. He has become something of a national poet; his poem "Cançăo Amiga" ("Friendly Song") was printed on the 50 cruzados note.

Drummond was born in Itabira, a mining village in Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil. His parents were farmers of Portuguese ancestry (and remote Scottish ancestry). He went to a school of pharmacy in Belo Horizonte, but never worked as a pharmacist after graduation. He worked in government service for most of his life, eventually becoming director of history for the National Historical and Artistic Heritage Service of Brazil.

Though his earliest poems are formal and satirical, Drummond quickly adopted the new forms of Brazilian modernism that were evolving in the 1920s, incited by the work of Mário de Andrade (to whom he was not related). He adopted a Whitmanian free verse, mingling speech fluent in elegance and truth about the surrounding, many times quotidian, world, with a fluidity of thought.

One of Drummond's best-known poems is his hymn to an ordinary man, "José." It is a poem of desolation:

Key in hand,
you want to open the door -
there is no door. . .
The work of Carlos Drummond is generally divided into several segments, which appear very markedly in each of his books. But this is somewhat misleading, since even in the midst of his everyday poems or his socialist, politicized poems, there appear creations which can be easily incorporated into his later metaphysical canon, and none of these styles is completely free of the others. There is surely much metaphysical content in even his most political poems.

The most prominent of these later metaphysical poems is A Máquina do Mundo (The World's Machine). The poem deals with an anti-Faust referred to in the first person, who receives the visit of the aforementioned Machine, which stands for all possible knowledge, and the sum of the answers for all the questions which afflict men; in highly dramatic and baroque versification the poem develops only for the anonymous subject to decline the offer of endless knowledge and proceed his gloomy path in the solitary road. It takes the renaissance allegory of the Machine of the World from Portugal's most esteemed poet, Luís de Camões, more precisely, from a canto at the end of his epic masterpiece Os Lusíadas. There are also hints from Dante and the form is adapted from T. S. Eliot's dantesque passage in "Little Gidding."

Drummond is a favorite of American poets, a number of whom, including Mark Strand and Lloyd Schwartz, have translated him. Later writers and critics have sometimes credited his relationship with Elizabeth Bishop, his first English language translator, as influential for his American reception, but though she admired him Bishop claimed she barely knew him. In an interview with George Starbuck in 1977, she said:

I didn't know him at all. He's supposed to be very shy. I'm supposed to be very shy. We've met once — on the sidewalk at night. We had just come out of the same restaurant, and he kissed my hand politely when we were introduced.