The poetry's sovereign laughter

Abstract

The tensive relationship between the authoritarian discourse of Power and the poetic speech of resistance hasalways been one of the writers' concern, especially of those who know how to make literary language neithera combat weapon nor an engagement instrument, but a singular space of lyric consciousness and societydialogue in the most intimate thread of the poetic tissue. This is what a thinker as Adorno, for instance,repeatedly showed from his postulate of art. Also, the contemporary poet Affonso Romano de Sant'Annapoints it out in his poem "Do que riem os poderosos?" [What do powerful people laugh at?], in A catedral deColonia (1985). Our paper aimed at analyzing how this "dialogue" happens, by investigating aestheticprocedures present in the Brazilian poet's text.