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Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the poem “Amor — pois que é palavra essencial”, of Carlos Drummond de Andrade, to verify if in its verses sex is an expression of love, which can unite dichotomies. This was made through qualitative bibliographic research, the exploratory survey of the thematic was made via studies of Rita Barbosa de Cássia, Mariana Quadros, Platão, Octavio Paz and George Bataille. Through these studies, was observed that the carnal love (sex) in this poem is seen as something natural, in other words, it integrates the human nature and it is through it that the persona can express its love. Therefore, the relation between love and sex is harmonious, they are not considered as opposite and irreconcilable words. In the same way, the nature of this love is made by body and soul, there is not a spiritual and other which has a sexual and carnal character, they become one during this poem. This reconciliation between these dichotomies it is possible through Eros’ powers, god of the Greek mythology who has a synthetical nature able to embrace in he what is opposite, then he is able to merge the dichotomies which emerge during the poetic text: matter/essence, love/sex, light/darkness, finite/infinite, which commonly are taken as irreconcilable in occidental culture. Also, is through sex that the persona and his partner, discontinuous beings — they are locked in their individualities, born and die alone — can find the continuity while they dissolve their individualities in each other.