The poetess and her master

Abstract

In the early 2000s, Adília Lopes claimed that her writing models were Sylvia Plath, Ruy Belo and Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen. The latter will be referred in an interview as her master, which explains that the dialogue with Sophia is constant in Adília Lopes's work over the years. Initially marked by an attitude of opposition between a classical ideal (defended by Sophia) and the defense of imperfection (by Adília Lopes), this dialogue is based on a common search for the rigor and purification of language, which in each leads to different conceptions of the accurate word.