REPRESENTATIONS OF THE NIGHT

A reading of four sonnets by Laura Rosa

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to make a critical reading of “Poema das noites”, by Laura Rosa,
which was published in the newspaper “Folha do Povo”, in November 1925. It is a text composed of
four sonnets that have as central theme the night and some of its symbolic aspects. In addition to the
analysis of the poem, a brief survey of the author's life and literary production is made. The work comes
from a bibliographic investigation with research in the virtual library of the Biblioteca Nacional and
culminated in a critical reading of the texts that make up the poem. The main authors used in the
characterization of the author's literary style were Goulart and Silva (1997), Moisés (2004), Ferreira
(2010) and Motta (2016).