The stars in the sky of Belo Horizonte are incomprehensible

Abstract

This paper analyzes, through the poem "Song of the Ghost Girl from Belo Horizonte", the paradox of a city whose modernization of its landscape does not find correspondence with a so-called cultural modernity of its society. Representing a kind of Carlos Drummond de Andrade’s lyrical persona, the Ghost Girl constitutes a certain convergence between the poet’s  self and the society of Belo Horizonte of that time. But a convergence that shows itself to be a coincidence of negative gestures, for the Ghost Girl that disguises the lyrical self and his  repressed desires also represents a traditional and provincial society that lives in disharmony with the modern forms of the city.