Uma leitura para a coleção de poemas A Arca de Noé, de Vinícius de Moraes

Abstract

The objective of this project is to discuss some aspects of Children's and Young Adult Literature and its historical evolution, especially with regard to poetry aimed at young people and children in Brazil. In line with the initial proposal, we intend to discuss issues related to Modernity and how this historical movement has consequences for everyday life and, therefore, for Literature. Modernity is understood as a complex system of cultural and social factors that occurred in the 20th century, which implies a specific form of artistic manifestation and the role played by the writer, in other words, the way he positions himself and sees society and the public. This attitude has a major impact on the way in which the literary work is treated, the choices made about technique, language, whether or not to subvert current standards and the perspective from which the content is approached. The factories, the power of machines, the modern means of communication, the new facets of human exploitation by capital, misery and unrest, in this sense, imprint a different worldview of poetics, also with regard to literary production aimed at young readers. We have therefore chosen Noah's Ark as the corpus of analysis for this project. Although apparently aimed at children, we intend to show that the poems that make up this collection reach a breadth of meaning and complexity that is specific to an adult audience