A METÁFORA NA TESSITURA SEMÂNTICA DOS COMPOSTOS CRIADOS POR JOÃO CABRAL DE MELO NETO

The article aims to present the results of a doctoral research that has attempted to describe and analyze compound and created words and used by the poet João Cabral de Melo Neto in his poetry. Analyzes of these lexical items was based on the semantic processes used to establish consistency and semantic unit of new lexical creations, that appearing with the introduction of original and unpublished effects in the poetry of Melo Neto. In various semantic mechanisms, the metaphor emerges as the greater stylistic potential within the compounds set created by the poet. The co-indexing semantics principle, presented by Rio-Torto (2010), appears as the analytical perspective adopted by us to describe our acts