How to Make a Landscape
The poem explores the idea of creating a landscape through language and imagination. It delves into the relationship between the individual and their surroundings, highlighting the tension between nature and human existence. The speaker describes the process of constructing a landscape, emphasizing the role of memory, emotion, and perception in shaping one's environment. Through lyrical and introspective language, the poem reflects on the human experience and our place within the natural world.
By Carlos Drummond de Andrade · First published 1973 · Genre: Poetry, Philosophical, Literary Fiction · 297 words
First lines
This landscape? It doesn't exist. What exists is vacant space, to be planted with landscape retrospectively.
The view of the mountains, the springs, the cecropia trees? What view? That all comes later.
Twenty years later, just like in dramas.
For now our seeing doesn't see; it gathers slivers of road, strands of horizon, without knowing that one day it will weave them into tapestries, like photographs, of visited lands we didn't grasp.
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How to Make a Landscape is listed on Textopian as a short story by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, dated 1973 CE.
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- Work type: Short story
- Author: Carlos Drummond de Andrade
- Date: 1973 CE
- Language: English
- Genres: Poetry, Philosophical, Literary Fiction, Nature Writing, Metafiction
- Length: 297 words
- Structure: 1 section, 11 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Fairly Easy (7th Grade)
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Genres
- Poetry — The text uses poetic language and imagery to convey its themes.
- Philosophical — The work explores deep reflections on perception and the passage of time.
- Literary Fiction — The narrative style and thematic depth align with literary fiction.
- Nature Writing — The text focuses on the natural landscape and its interpretation.
Tags
Poetry · Brazilian Literature · Landscape · Nature · Environment · Imagery · Symbolism · Modernist Poetry · Free Verse · Contemplation · Reflection · Philosophy