Poesia e resistência na obra Sagrada Esperança, de Agostinho Neto

Abstract

In this research, we propose to analyze a work Sagrada Esperança, 1977, by the Angolan writer Agostinho Neto. The poetics of this author presents itself as a weapon of denunciation and intervention. Thus, we aim to observe the forms of representation of poets who aim to contest the problems of their society from the intellectual and political experience of the poet, who, by exposing his desires, can break the barriers imposed by the colonizer. The poems have a reflective body supported by a constant vision of the world, whose purpose of this action is centered on the contribution to a better life and to the recognition of black people as a subject in history, especially Angolans. The poems show the poet is commitment to his society, based on a permanent perspective of the future, presented here due to hope. The annoyance in the world motivates many committed poets to be due and to turn their poems into a way of resistance, so it is that Agostinho Neto makes use of literature to expose the contrariety of his time, taking a political stance in a very troubled time in his country. Thus, we went through a process of literary and historical analysis, seeking to understand the characteristics and peculiarities of this literature of a social character, for that, analysis and reading of the poems in the work, based on some literary critic and theoretical ones, such as Albert Memmi (2007 ) , Alfredo Bosi (1977), Antonio Candido (2006), Benjamin Abdala Júnior (1989), Carlos Everdosa (1974), Inocência Mata (2006), Maria Aparecida Santilli (1985), Octávio Paz (2003), Rita Chaves (2007 ) , Tania Macêdo (2007) and many others.