Gregório de Matos: poetic imagery in the Brazilian colonial baroque

Abstract

In this article, we intend to reflect on the use of imagistic elements and their sources in colonial Brazil, especially in the poetry of Gregório de Matos, seventeenth century Brazilian poet. Moreover, we intend to demonstrate that, despite the distance from the Metropole (Portugal), the colony was also, in a certain way, immersed in the same sea of images and topical of that, as well as of the imagistic European tradition of the period, making large use of them in his poetics work, regardless of whether or not the artist has written the poems that are attributed to him.