Vieira e a construção alegórica

Abstract

A language figure used and analyzed since the classic antiquity, the allegory or metaphor fulfilled several functions in the discourses of (retores), poets, theologians, etc. It acquired, at first, the role of beautifying the text, and became the rhetorical proof used by the Jesuits in the hermeneutics of the biblical texts. Using the particularities of the analogies that make this allegory, as a basis, we can distinguish three subdivisions of this kind of expression: the poets' allegory, the theologians' one, and the allegory from the renaissance. In this article, it is intended to show the process of formation of the poets' allegory, providing means to this interpretation.