Text interpretation and production activity, proposed to students in the seventh or eighth year of elementary school, with exercises in reading and interpreting the poem “O Sugar” by the poet Ferreira Gullar.
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
The white sugar that will sweeten my coffee
this morning from Ipanema
was not produced by me
nor did it appear inside the sugar bowl by a miracle.
I see it pure
and affable to the palate
like a girl's kiss, water
on the skin, flower
which dissolves in the mouth. But this sugar
it wasn't made by me.
this sugar came
from the corner grocery store and Oliveira didn't do it either,
owner of the grocery store.
this sugar came
of a sugar mill in Pernambuco
or in the state of Rio
and neither did the owner of the plant.
This sugar was cane
and came from the extensive cane fields
that are not born by chance
in the lap of the valley.
In distant places where there is no hospital
nor school,
men who cannot read and starve
at 27 years old
planted and harvested the cane
that would turn into sugar.
In dark plants,
men of bitter life
and hard
produced this sugar
white and pure
how I sweeten my coffee this morning in Ipanema.
Ferreira Gullar. Into The Fast Night & Dirty Poem. São Paulo: Círculo do Livro, s/d., p.51-2.
1) What is the theme covered in the text?
2) According to the text where the lyrical self resides?
3) Transcribe the verses in which the poet praises sugar.
4) What is the criticism implicit in the text? Comment.
5) According to passages in the text, sugar was cane and came from extensive cane fields. Describe the place where the people who planted and harvested the cane for sugar production live.
6) Just as Ferreira Gullar wrote about sugar. Produce a poem about a food you love a lot. Don't forget to give your text a title. Your poem should have two triplets and two quartets (sonnet). The rhyming scheme you choose or do it with white verses.
Good work!
By Rosiane Fernandes Silva – Graduated in Letters
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