INFÂNCIA OU INFÂNCIAS?

A IMERSÃO POÉTICA EM A ÁRVORE QUE DAVA SORVETE, DE SÉRGIO CAPPARELLI

Abstract

Childhood is not limited to a single conception; it migrates, and adapts itself to the social, cultural, and individual context, however, with particularities only its own, as the joy of playing, fantasizing, and being whole and present in each minute lived. Childhood is singular, inhabits a unique being, but transcends wherever it goes, becoming diverse, hybrid, and audacious (Kohan, 2007; Fronckowiak, 2013). This article comes from a Master's Thesis entitled A infância em versos: Sérgio Capparelli defended in 2023. In that bibliographical and qualitative research, we chose to share the childhoods that emerge from the literary work The Tree That Gave Ice Cream. We observed they departed from known territories, such as those linked to oral tradition, animals, and family affection, migrated to new spaces, interacted with love, and observed society, denouncing poverty, slavery, and social injustices. Childhood transforms itself with each territory it travels, matures, and becomes bigger. However, it does not lose its sensitivity, sweetness, and capacity to love, imagine, dream, be happy with nonsense and illogicality, and believe in the impossible, especially because an adult poet can still consider it.

KEYWORDS: Childhood; Poetry; Reading Education; Sergio Capparelli.