THE RESISTANCE OF POETRY / RESISTANCE IN POETRY

Abstract

In the last fifty years Portuguese poetry developed different forms of resistance, reacting not only to political, social and cultural circumstances, but also to a gradual process of devaluation of its place and role in the contemporary world. This study aims at determining and describing different models of resistance in (and of) poetry, by considering some of the poetics that marked Portuguese poetry from the 1960's to our days. Authors as different as Carlos de Oliveira, Luiza Neto Jorge, Herberto Helder, Anto?nio Franco Alexandre, Joa?o Miguel Fernandes Jorge, Adi?lia Lopes, Ana Lui?sa Amaral, Manuel de Freitas or Jose? Miguel Silva bear in common the fact that they invest poetry with a function of resistance. What brings these authors together? What separates them? The answer to these questions may provide an insight into the notion of resistance in poetry as well as its articulation with the notion of the resistance of poetry.