Ariana, the woman is a reprint, that is, a publication dedicated to a single, long poem. It reaffirms the mystical place that Vinicius's poetic voice assumed at that time, narrating the search for the ideal – and idealized – woman. Death, loneliness and darkness in their clash with nature lead the poet through a dream around Ariana and her saving purity. The book, in a way, is linked to the moment in which Vinicius begins new intellectual and friendship relationships. He moves from the closed Catholic group he formed at the Faculty of Law of Catete towards friends more linked to bohemia and other more earthly moods. In the same year that Ariana, the woman is released, the young poet gains friends that would last for the rest of his life, such as Manuel Bandeira, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Lucio Costa, Jayme Ovalle, among others. Despite this, Ariana still brings the strong lyrical-spiritual trait that the next books would begin to call into question.
