Poetical language and urban-industrial growth.

Abstract

The impact of urban-industrial growth on modern lyrics is approached from the angle of the dissonances wich occurred between the thematic representations and the expressive procedures. Thus, the European poets´ responses to the Industrial Revolution and the emergence of the large cities are confronted with those of the 1922 Brazilian modernists in relation to the industrialization of São Paulo. In the latter, contrary to what happened with ther former ones, the conflicts take place between the programatic celebration of modern life and, at first, the impossibility of adequating their form of expressions to the record of said modernity. Thus the thematic-expressive desiquilibrium in Paulicéia Desvairada, as well as the adequations obtained in later works are explained.