O desejo em várias claves: «A morte de Isolda»

Abstract

The poem «A morte de Isolda» combines sonority and poetic and polyphonically articulates the genesis myth of knowledge, the medieval myth of love-passion, Wagner’s lyrical drama in order to evidence primary opposition: life and death, matter and spirit, obedience and transgression, heaven and earth. The last aria of the opera Tristan und Isolde presents a redundant libretto that serves as a substrate to the poem of Jorge de Sena, which is a product of the intelligent listening of its author, able to recreate the music in another language. Thus the tritone that initiates the opera, inaugurating the conductive theme to him, is reproduced in the first image of the poem, accompanying it from stanza to stanza. The poem is read as myths and music are read, in the melodic horizontality and verticality of the chords and arpeggios, in order to highlight the attractive process that makes the language erotic and the poem heretical.