The faces of Eros in Primeiro by Santiago Villela Marques
Eros. Myth. Poetry. Santiago Villela Marques.
This study consisted in investigating the presence of the mythical figure of Eros in love poems from the book Primeiro by the poet Santiago Villela Marques (2004). For this purpose, the procedure employed in this research had the support of mythocriticism, through which we investigated how the variations of the myth of Eros are presented in the poetic texture. As a theoretical support, we relied on Gilbert Durand's critical approaches to the imaginary, as well as Gaston Bachelard’s and Carl Gustav Jung’s. We also considered the fundamental concepts of myth and image and a short inventory of the consecrated versions of the myth played by Eros, based on the studies of Jaa Torrano, Werner Jaeger, and Junito Brandão, in addition to the theoretical postulates of Alfredo Bosi. From the obtained results, we verified that the poet opted for the classical forms of the poem, especially the sonnet, to carry out the mythical updating, and that the poetic images constellate for an operation of return of the Being to the communion with its nature, which was made possible by the experience of love and its unfoldings: divisions, exiles, rebirths and completeness. Finally, there is a movement, directed by Eros, which simulates an initiation path experienced by the speaker, demonstrating that the path to individuation and reintegration of the All goes through encountering the other.