THE TEXT GAME AND THE COCREATION OF MEANINGS IN THE POEM ‘AS SEM-RAZÕES DO AMOR’ BY CARLOS DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE: A LITERARY ANALYSIS THAT CONTEXTUALIZES THE IMPORTANCE OF READER/TEXT INTERACTION

Abstract

The objective of this article is to analyze the poetic resources used by Carlos Drummond de Andrade in the poem 'As Sem-Razões do Amor', highlighting how the sound and wordplay challenge and involve the reader, allowing multiple interpretations and the creation of new meanings through intertextuality and filling in the textual gaps left by the poet. The study is based on the concepts of the text game (Iser, 2002), on literary theories that point to the reader as a participatory element and on the aesthetics of reception (Jauss, 1994) and on the writings of Eco (1986) on open text. Regarding the methodology, it is a qualitative analysis, in which we sought to interpret, between the lines, the musicality and the play on words, a sound that enabled multiple interpretations through the intertextuality established by the reader. When analyzing the poem, it was found that the beginning and end are interconnected and that Drummond is criticizing the use of love without love. The constant movement and the play on words are engaging, they instigate the receiver and invite him to fill in the existing gaps that require the reader's intervention to complete them, and in doing so, the reader becomes co-producer of the act of creation. The poem deeply explores the inexplicable nature of love, and through the play on words the poet expresses the intention of making us reflect on the sublimity of love, so difficult, if not impossible to explain, but convinces us that no one rules the heart.