SILVA, Maurício. Contemporary infantile poetry: linguistic dimension and infantile imaginary. Imaginario []. 2006, 12, 13, pp.359-380. ISSN 1413-666X.

When we talk about poetry in general, and mainly about infantile poetry, one must not renounce a fundamental approach in order to comprehend all the complex world of poetic art: it is about its structural ambit, which, associated to the already mentioned infantile universe, makes this poetry a field particularly suitable to the representation of the child’s imagination. Thus, any analysis of the infantile poetry intended to be done requires a relatively wide mastership of the structural components that determine its constitution as a literary kind, provided that the esthetic effects promoted by the poetic text gain special relief when it comes to a different audience, like the one composed of children. The purpose of this work is exactly to analyze the structural components (content and form) of the contemporary infantile poetic production, in order to infer its force lines, mainly comparing it to the traditional production, and insert this poetry into the theoretical discussion that opposes, within the infantile literature scope, the esthetic and pedagogic aspects, provided that the infantile poetry can situate itself exactly in the conjunction of the pedagogic and artistic spheres, as it affirms itself, at once, as a private instance of the human being’s instructive complex and an esthetic manifestation, engraving itself in a singular and irreducible manner in the child’s complex universe.

: Infantile literature; Education; Poetry; Aaesthetics; Imaginary.

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