# io resto a casa: vozes (in)ativas e (res)significadas

When considering poetics and the power of the voice in times of pandemic, this article intends to launch a few reflections on the (res)signification of the voice during confinement. Deprived of the body and physical contact, the voice is enhanced, in poetic contexts or not. We are left without image, but we cannot be without the voice, becoming fighters of a huge war machine. Accordingly to Freud in 1915, we fight or stagnate, and in this way, (re)discover our fragments in the mirror and reorganize the image. Based on the book A letra e a voz, by Paul Zumthor (2001), and the text "Cultura e memoria", by Jerusa Pires Ferreira (1995), a Ratoeira is taken as an example, practiced on the coast of Santa Catarina, to reflect on the relationship of voice and memory. This article results from bibliographic research on the relationship of the body and voice, the popular manifestation of an oral tradition called Ratoeira, and it seeks connections with the current moment of the pandemic, in which we are relearning to listen and fight with words. For this combat, voice and literature play an essential role.