Influence and overcoming in the poetic of Ruy Belo

Abstract

For Ruy Belo, the hypertextual dimension of poetry is an inevitability. However, this perception does not presuppose a passive attitude towards the phenomenon of influence. In his view, the poet who seeks a voice of his own must coexist with the voices of the past to later confront and overcome them. The analysis of an excerpt from the poem A margem da alegria and the collation of Dominique de Saint-Alban’s book, Le roman d’amour des grandes Égéries, will also seek to demonstrate the hypertextual characteristics of Ruy Belo’s writing, as well as the compositional devices used by the poet to obtain a high temperature of expression and trigger aesthetic emotion.