Portas da percepção: uma leitura filosófica da poesia romântica de William Blake

Abstract

The present dissertation talks about one of the main problems of Philosophy – since its origins until the contemporaneity: its relationship with Myth and Poetry. In order to comprehend the connection between Myth, Poetry and Philosophy (that many see as opposites), we will show, through the romantic vision, that they are inseparable. Therefore, we will present an overview of the romantic spirit, as well as we will analyze the philosophical foundation of the Poetry of one of the forerunners of the movement, William Blake, by Reading some of his poems, among them, those contained in his work The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (2009a), opening a dialogue between Poetry and Philosophy from the concepts of Truth, Imagination and Reason. We will also show the inseparable union between Poetry and Knowledge. For this, we will make use of modern philosophical and poetic thought, more precisely at the time in which the poet was situated, period that provides us with a better understanding of his critique of exacerbated rationalism and its consequences.