The poet eats peanuts: considerations about the Semiotics of the Poetic Text

Abstract

We intend to develop in this paper some reflections concerning the collaborative role played among readers. We acknowledge the benefits that may emerge from such a situation which may stimulate readers to experience the reading process in an interactive way as a means of promoting knowledge about oneself and the reception of literary texts. Within this perspective, the meaning to be achieved in the end of the reading process should bind the text to the reader through the linguistic and cultural context, aiming at bringing them closer, rather than leaving them apart. A Semiotic perspective is used here, as we consider the processes that determine the production of poetic discourses semiotic, and as such, it can be articulated and formulated.