Silence, destruction, creation

About 'Infinite silence', by Ferreira Gullar

Abstract

In the poem "Infinito silêncio", de Ferreira Gullar, politics is absent: it is not a subject, nor is there any allusion to it. The poem is a diving in the poetical subjectivity, which emerges as the fundamental image the absolute emptiness, before the organization of matter. Diving which unfolds in a double recognition: on the one hand, the deletion of certain historical possibilities, the annihilation of some hopes and, secondly, the perception that the “victory” was not absolute or definitive. Read an overview of Adorno, the relative neglect of political engagement, rather than retreat, can be interpreted as a way of reaction to the collapse of the historical possibilities discussed throughout the twentieth century. So that, by turning on itself and on the absolute vastness of the cosmos, "Infinite silence" enacts a resistance to the status quo, expressing the idea of harmony negatively embodying the contradictions in its innermost structure.