CHILDREN'S POETRY PRODUCED IN MATO GROSSO: an ecocritical perspective
Keywords: Children's poetry. Mato Grosso. Reader education. Ecocriticism.
This research aims to analyze contemporary works of children's poetry, produced in Mato Grosso, from an ecocritical perspective, in order to understand how some readings can act in favour of environmental education, exercising a humanizing function in the formation of the reader. The works that make up the corpus of this research were selected because they are poetic and contemporary, helping to compose a picture of children's poetry. By studying the selected works, it will be possible to analyse how each one brings the environmental theme together, combining the art of poetry and illustrations, guiding a reading that can make the reader aware of environmental problems, while at the same time enchanting small readers, enabling them to have a critical and humanized education. Considering that an illustration is an image that accompanies a text and not a substitute for it, and that these two languages constitute a single text, the analysis of the illustrations will focus on the meanings of what the image represents and also how it does so. It's based on the assumption that Vira e mexe, um pet (2021) by Divanize Carbonieri; Sabiapoca: ou Canção do Exílio sem sair de Casa (2018) by Aclyse Mattos; Doce de formiga (2014) and Sabichões (2016) by Marta Cocco; and Serelepiando com poesias (2014) by Iraci Conceição Romagnolli Dias, have an aesthetic capable of contributing to the formation of critical readers, considering that from the literary it is possible to reflect on the environment, without the weight of the pedagogizing action of disciplines directed specifically at ecological problems.