The Uirapuru

children's literature through the charm of music and poetry

Abstract

In “O Irapuru”, sonnet by Humberto de Campos (1982), the lyrical subject gives the Amazon bird the epithet “The peaceful rubber plantation Orpheus”, because its singing, just as Apollo and Calliope’s son’s, makes everyone stop and listen. This enchantment power of music can also be of poetry, since its roots are related to singing. Giuliana Ragusa (2013) explains that the word “lyric” carries the noun “lyre”, a performance instrument in this genre, as it is observed in Orpheus. With the reading of the referred poem, this short study uses the comparative literature approach between the indigenous legend and the Greek myth in order to reflect on the benefits of the interdisciplinary perspective between music and poetry to the teaching of Youth Literature. Methodologically, this is a bibliographic work, having as the theoretical framework the studies of Segismundo Spina (2002), Roberval Pereyr (2000) and Giuliana Ragusa (2013), which were imperative to understand the link between music and poetry; the teaching proposition of Helder Pinheiro (2018) and the myths and legends concepts of Mircea Eliade (1998) and Luis da Câmara Cascudo (2005). Therefore, it is proposed a brief comparative analysis of these stories and the reflection of the poetry teaching in school classrooms.