Resumo O presente artigo versa sobre as Elegias de Buckow [Buckower Elegien], produzidas por Brecht a partir de meados de 1953. Para análise e comentário foram selecionados 8 poemas da obra. Nestes procura-se verificar a crítica do autor à situação político-social da Alemanha Oriental nessa época, num quadro de reapresentação de elementos fascistas numa sociedade a que se atribuía a construção do socialismo. No plano formal, procura-se salientar - apelando-se também a poemas anteriores, escritos durante a guerra - a maneira com que, nas elegias, Brecht altera a perspectiva do lamento para atender a necessidades historicamente configuradas.

Abstract This article deals with the Buckow Elegies [Buckower Elegien], which Brecht began to write in mid-1953. Eight of these elegies have been selected for analysis and commentary. The investigation is focused on the author’s criticism of the social and political situation of former East Germany at that time, a moment when fascist elements were still in place in a society whose main goal was supposed to be the attainment of socialism. In terms of form, this article seeks to demonstrate, also by tackling poems from the period of the war, the way in which Brecht, in these elegies, changes the perspective on regret by considering historically configured needs.