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Terpe, Henriette ORCID: 0000-0001-6900-0234 (2025). The reversed river and the poet on the bridge: Mário de Andrade’s “A meditação sobre o Tietê” (1922). Water History, 17 (1). pp. 121-133. Springer Nature. ISSN 1877-7236

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Abstract

“A meditação sobre o Tietê” is the last long poem of Brazilian modernist poet Mário de Andrade (1893–1945). Taking the particular geographic and historic situation of the river Tietê as a starting point, this article analyzes the role of the river in the poem as well as the special position of the poet standing on a bridge above the river. The fact that the Tietê river flows inland instead of leading directly to the ocean allows the poet to construct quite a singular poetic image of the river that contradicts traditional literary characteristics of rivers such as (creative) fertility and the irreversible linear passing of time. By adding a comparative reading of poems by Guillaume Apollinaire, Hart Crane, and Ingeborg Bachmann, to our analysis, we can show the close connection between the image of the poet on the bridge, and the poetic principles that underly each of these lyric texts.

Item Type:	Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Terpe, Henriette UNSPECIFIED https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6900-0234 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-796887
Identification Number:	10.1007/s12685-024-00355-4
Journal or Publication Title:	Water History
Volume:	17
Number:	1
Page Range:	pp. 121-133
Number of Pages:	13
Date:	22 April 2025
Publisher:	Springer Nature
ISSN:	1877-7236
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Fächergruppe 5: Moderne Sprachen und Kulturen > Romanisches Seminar
Subjects:	Philosophy Social sciences
['eprint_fieldname_oa_funders' not defined]:	Publikationsfonds UzK
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/79688