A poesia infantil de Sérgio Capparelli:um caminho para a infância

Abstract

Sergio Capparelli is a Brazilian poet whose work has followed three decades; it began in 1983, when he published his first book and goes up to 2010, when the author released his most recent piece. This paper intends to analyze the author s poetry for children, by studying how it communicates with childhood. Characteristics and resources that build up the texts are observed, leading to the analysis of the way they talk to the young reader. In order to understand the composition of the poems and the way they communicate with childhood, theories about children, poetry and the construction of the reader in the text are referred in the analysis. The way the author s poetry is composed, which specific characteristics and elements the texts employ and how they are built and organized so that they may communicate with childhood are matters that guide this study. The results show that there are differences in the usage of poetical resources as decades go by; thus, the author s works are guided in different ways towards the reader, following changes in childhood and the cultural production that addresses this age.