The aim of this master s thesis is to discuss two questions related to the poetics of Manuel Bandeira, using the correspondence between the poet and Mário de Andrade as the research material. The first question deals with the actual correspondence between the two, the correspondence understood here as an enunciation which is to be returned by the other, constructing thus a discourse which establishes mutual relations and sociocultural interferences. The second question refers to the analysis of the bandeirian concept of poetics confronted with the poet s own life experience, taking into account the way the poetics were realized and the tools that were used to create given effects. Elements of tension - death and inspiration - are discussed from the point of view of Bandeira himself, as revealed in his letters and realized in the poetry.