Gregório de Matos

carnivalized eroticism

Abstract

This article analyzes three poems by Gregório de Matos with the aim of understanding the relationship between his poetry and carnival erotic conception. Using a qualitative approach and a bibliographical procedure, to support this work, we apply theoretical and critical contributions from Bajtín (1987), Birman (2001), Discini (2006), Fiorin (2006) and Hansen (2004), respectively, which contribute to a reflection on the carnival work of the Brazilian baroque poet of siglo XVII. The poet Gregório de Matos, in his condition as a rebel, cursed and even prohibited, kept silence before the injustices and adverse circumstances that surrounded him, thus justifying the nickname «Boca del Infierno». In this sense, the poems Pica-flor, Define your city and At the same captain chartering him to Amasia called Surucucu were examined in an attempt to reveal, through eroticism, the ambivalences and subversions of the prevailing social order that characterize elements of a carnivalized erotic poetic discourse.