This article discusses from the ‘Our Time’ poetry how Carlos Drummond de Andrade’s poesia perceives and treats his historical and cultural time. Through a thorough analysis of the semantic stratum, metaphoric language, syntactic construction and the rhetoric and stylistic marks of that poem, it shows that the historical moment that the poet reproduces brings about the fragmentation and alienation of man, requiring him to take a political stance. By comparing the composition procedures of the poem with Chaplin’s films, the cohesion of its structure, the precise chain between its parts, the consistency between the various materials of which it is composed and the syntax which supports it, it makes us the work ‘of the artisanal worker’ whose function seems to be to restore symbolically the union of men in the fragmented and sprayed capitalist world.