THE POEM DIES IN THE WORLD: AN APPROACH TO LEXICO-SEMANTIC RESOURCES IN SILVANA MENESES'S POETARY WORK

Abstract

While constructing a text with a literary content, the author makes use of several artifices provided by the language, in order to make the text more expressive and inviting. A work acquires a plural aspect when cut in an aesthetic perspective, sensitizing and captivating potential readers. Among these linguistic mechanisms, the use of the lexicon stands out, which, together with the semantic aspect, allows for multiple interpretations. Thus, resorting to the theoretical current of stylistics, this article aims to analyze the linguistic-expressive resources manifested in the poetic production of the writer from Maranhão Silvana Lourença de Meneses, focusing on lexical-semantic aspects. The study is based on studies by Guiraud (1970), Lapa (1998), Monteiro (2009), Rocha (2014) among others. The research selected, in the poem named Embarcação (1988), by the aforementioned author, texts in which the use of expressive resources of a lexical-semantic character in the construction of poems is perceived. Therefore, having as object of reflection such productions, the study shows that the use made by Meneses explores the linguistic potential contained in the lexicon, also embracing the semantic aspects.