Diogo Cesar Nunes

Writing as one who Cries… The Poet as a Fencer

This paper seeks to question the relationship between lyrical subject and living subject as from the poem O relógio e o sonho, by Moacyr Félix, originally published in the book O pão e o vinho, 1959, work in which the poet said he had found his “own face”. Highlighting the theme of memory, we refer to Baudelaire's metaphor of the “fencer” and the relationship between Erfahrung and Erlebnis, as well as between “lived experience” and “poetic experience” in Benjamin, to support the hypothesis that affirmative of poetic identity, in Felix's lyric, is at the same time the realization of its loss.