Abstract
This article aims to analyze the episode that narrates the Guesa's midnight dream on the banks of the Solimões River, a passage that is present in the first book of Joaquim de Sousândrade's pan-Indian epic O Guesa. This part, which anticipates the epic topic of the “descent into hell” that occurs during the Dance of Tatuturema in the second book, shows some of the literary influences over the poet's voice in formal and thematic aspects. This study will try to identify, through the poetic text, some of these influences, quite varied and assembling aspects of epic poetry - classical, renaissance and modern - of lyric and of romantic and Indianist literature, culminating in an object of singular value within Brazilian poetry. Guesa, a Muisca Indian, personification of the Sun-god and representative of the pan-Indian project of Sousândrade, undergoes a metamorphosis at midnight: he resembles Lucifer and Prometheus, and sings his melancholy just like Baudelaire on the banks of the mythical Lethe.
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