Style
Drummond was the first great poet to assert himself after the premiere modernist of Brazil and created a unique style dominated by his beautiful writing. His work displays linguistic freedom and free verse. But it goes beyond that: "The work of Drummond reaches – as Fernando Pessoa and Jorge de Lima and Murilo Mendes Herberto Helder – a coefficient of loneliness that detached from the soil of history, leading the reader to an attitude free of references, trademarks or ideological or prospective, "said Alfredo Bosi (1994).
His poetry is divided into three parts:
- I, greater than the world – marked by ironic poetry
- I, lower than the world – marked by social poetry
- I, equal to the world – covers the metaphysical poetry
In the late 1980s, his poetry started to become more erotic.
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