Do you like poetry? How about embarking on the history of Brazilian Literature to meet one of our greatest poets? If you accept the invitation, then let's get to know a little more about the life and work of Cecília Meireles.
Cecília Meireles was born in the city of Rio de Janeiro, on November 7, 1901. Her parents were Portuguese and, unfortunately, as a child, the writer was orphaned, being under the care of her maternal grandmother, D. Jacinta Garcia Benevides. This premature contact with death made Cecilia learn from a very early age about the ephemeral nature of life, after all, it can be brief. This relationship between the ephemeral and the eternal served as the theme for many of her poems.
Cecília was a teacher, graduated from the Normal Course at the Rio de Janeiro Institute of Education in 1917 and, in 1919, published her first book of poetry, called “Espectro”. After that, many others came, like “Never again... and Poema dos Poemas and “Balads for El-Rei”. In 1922, she married the Portuguese painter Fernando Correia Dias, with whom she had three daughters. A few years later, after the death of her first husband, Cecilia remarried Heitor Vinícius da Silveira Grilo, a professor and agronomist.
In addition to writing her books, Cecília also had a daily page on problems related to education in the newspaper Diário de Notícias, to which she contributed in the 1930s and 1931. She was also responsible for organizing the first children's library in Rio de Janeiro, as she had a close and intense relationship with the Children's literature. She was a professor at the Faculty of Arts at the then University of the Federal District (now the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), school director, producer and editor of cultural programs at Radio Ministry of Education, in Rio de January.
Cecília Meireles died in her hometown on November 9, 1964, at the age of 63. A year after her death, in 1965, she was honored with the Machado de Assis Prize for her body of work, which won recognition from the Brazilian Academy of Letters. His simple poetry, full of lyricism, was considered one of the purest and most beautiful manifestations of contemporary literature. The writer left a vast work, including books dedicated to children's literature. O kids school brings you three beautiful poems by Cecília Meireles for you to be enchanted by the beauty of her verses and rhymes. Good reading!
Cecília Meireles dedicated part of her literary work to Children's Literature, one of her great passions
garden auction
Who buys me a flower garden?
Butterflies of many colors,
washerwomen and birds,
green and blue eggs in the nests?
Who buys me this snail?
Who buys me a sun ray?
A lizard between the wall and the ivy,
a statue of spring?
Who buys me this anthill?
And this frog, who is a gardener?
And the grasshopper and his song?
And the cricket inside the ground?
(This is my auction.)
Cecília already liked books even before she learned to read. At the age of nine, she wrote her first poem
the white horse
In the afternoon, the white horse
is very tired:
but there is a little piece of the field
where it's always a holiday.
the horse shakes its mane
blonde and long
and in the green herbs shoot
your white life.
Your whinny shakes the roots
and he teaches the winds
the joy of feeling free
your movements.
Worked all day, so much!
since dawn!
Rest among the flowers, white horse,
with golden mane!
Cecília Meireles was a teacher, writer and journalist. Her first book was published when she was eighteen years old.
girl dreams
The flower the girl dreams of
is in the dream?
or on the pillowcase?
Dream
Smiley:
the wind alone
in your cart.
what size
would it be the herd?
The neighbor
catch
the umbrella
of spider web.. .
on the moon there is a nest
of bird.
The moon the girl dreams of
it's the dream linen
or the moon on the pillowcase?
*The image that illustrates the article was taken from the cover of the book “Cecília de Pocket – Uma Poética” anthology by Editora L&PM Pocket.
By Luana Castro
Graduated in Letters
