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Task 2 - Letter of Intentions
The topic “Death in Manuel Bandeira”was chosen by the group because Manuel Bandeira’s poems have a close relationship with the theme “death” and we found very interesting to write about this. Since most of works about the Brazilian poet are written in Portuguese, maybe it is also a way to spread his work for English language speakers. Considering that we intend to write our essay through analyzing some poems and comparing the poetic speaker’s views of death and how this is related to the Bandeira’s life.English language speakers who like literature, especially Brazilian Literature, are our main audience. We want to show readers that Manuel Bandeira was a great poet and how interesting it is the relationship between his life and poems, constructed through the theme “death”.As our sources we have read an article called “Aspectos da imanênciatranscendente de Manuel Bandeira” (“Aspects of Manuel Bandeira’s transcendent immanence”), written by João Paulo MatediAlves, in which he analyzes and discusses some aspects of Manuel Bandeira’s poems and its relationship with “death”. Also,will read something written by DaviArrigucciJr, who is a famous critic on Manuel Bandeira’s work.

Well, first of all we decided to write about the poet Manuel Bandeira. Then we decided to write specifically about the connection between his tuberculosis and his work as a poet. To do that we divided the work and then, together, we revised each other’s part and wrote the conclusion paragraph. We wrote the topic sentences and from that, each one of us wrote about one of the topics and then we put everything together. We did not change a thing, except for lexical changes. Comments from our peers helped more in revising the text, not exactly on the content. Classes activities helped us to do a good research and gave us directions on how to write an effective essay.

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Marina Mattos Patrícia Souza Raíssa Almeida Wagner Junior.