Mensagem (Portuguese Edition)

Pessoa's vocabulary is relatively simple and the beauty of his architecture of words is beyond description and definitely well-worth the effort. The English translations I offer after reading Prof.

Mensagem (Message) by Fernando Pessoa- English version

Harland's versions are intended as an extra incentive for students to read the originals which I have individually explained in Portuguese. When originally published in , Mensagem was not written in standard Portuguese but rather in the orthography used before the First World War. Because this was the poet's own choice, it had to be maintained to preserve the original mood.

If you are looking for words in a dictionary and cannot find them, you may want to review the poem in Modern Portuguese here.

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The links below list the poems presently available in English. Elsewhere in the same pages you will find the original poem in Portuguese, illustrated by Carlos Alberto Santos and annotated by me.

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Joao Manuel Mimoso Go to the Portuguese Table of Contents of Mensagem He does not question anything whatsoever; he calmly accepts the world as it is. The recurrent themes to be found in nearly all of Caeiro's poems are wide-eyed childlike wonder at the infinite variety of nature, as noted by a critic. He is free of metaphysical entanglements. Central to his world-view is the idea that in the world around us, all is surface: He manages thus to free himself from the anxieties that batter his peers; for Caeiro, things simply exist and we have no right to credit them with more than that.

Caeiro attains happiness by not questioning, and by thus avoiding doubts and uncertainties. He apprehends reality solely through his eyes, through his senses.

Octavio Paz called him the innocent poet. Paz made a shrewd remark on the heteronyms: In each are particles of negation or unreality. Reis believes in form, Campos in sensation, Pessoa in symbols. Caeiro doesn't believe in anything. Poetry before Caeiro was essentially interpretative; what poets did was to offer an interpretation of their perceived surroundings; Caeiro does not do this.

Instead, he attempts to communicate his senses, and his feelings, without any interpretation whatsoever. Caeiro attempts to approach Nature from a qualitatively different mode of apprehension; that of simply perceiving an approach akin to phenomenological approaches to philosophy.

Poets before him would make use of intricate metaphors to describe what was before them; not so Caeiro: Caeiro sought a direct experience of the objects before him. As such it is not surprising to find that Caeiro has been called an anti-intellectual, anti-Romantic, anti-subjectivist, anti-metaphysical He is in this sense very unlike his creator Fernando Pessoa: Pessoa was besieged by metaphysical uncertainties; these were, to a large extent, the cause of his unhappiness; not so Caeiro: Things, for him, simply—are.

Caeiro represents a primal vision of reality, of things. He is the pagan incarnate. Indeed, Caeiro was not simply a pagan but paganism itself. The critic Jane M. Sheets sees the insurgence of Caeiro—who was Pessoa's first major heteronym—as essential in founding the later poetic personas: By means of this artless yet affirmative anti-poet, Caeiro, a short-lived but vital member of his coterie, Pessoa acquired the base of an experienced and universal poetic vision.

After Caeiro's tenets had been established, the avowedly poetic voices of Campos, Reis and Pessoa himself spoke with greater assurance. Reis, both a character and a heteronym of Fernando Pessoa himself, [71] sums up his philosophy of life in his own words, admonishing, "See life from a distance.

There's nothing it can tell you. He is a modern pagan who urges one to seize the day and accept fate with tranquility. The seeker will find in all things the abyss, and doubt in himself. Believing in the Greek gods , yet living in a Christian Europe, Reis feels that his spiritual life is limited and true happiness cannot be attained. This, added to his belief in Fate as a driving force for all that exists, as such disregarding freedom, leads to his epicureanist philosophy, which entails the avoidance of pain, defending that man should seek tranquility and calm above all else, avoiding emotional extremes.

Where Caeiro wrote freely and spontaneously, with joviality, of his basic, meaningless connection to the world, Reis writes in an austere, cerebral manner, with premeditated rhythm and structure and a particular attention to the correct use of the language when approaching his subjects of, as characterized by Richard Zenith, "the brevity of life, the vanity of wealth and struggle, the joy of simple pleasures, patience in time of trouble, and avoidance of extremes".

In his detached, intellectual approach, he is closer to Fernando Pessoa's constant rationalization, as such representing the orthonym's wish for measure and sobriety and a world free of troubles and respite, in stark contrast to Caeiro's spirit and style. As such, where Caeiro's predominant attitude is that of joviality, his sadness being accepted as natural "My sadness is a comfort for it is natural and right. Of the three heteronyms he is the one who feels most strongly, his motto being 'to feel everything in every way. As a result, his mood and principles varied between violent, dynamic exultation, as he fervently wishes to experience the entirety of the universe in himself, in all manners possible a particularly distinctive trait in this state being his futuristic leanings, including the expression of great enthusiasm as to the meaning of city life and its components and a state of nostalgic melancholy, where life is viewed as, essentially, empty.

One of the poet's constant preoccupations, as part of his dichotomous character, is that of identity: Wanting to be everything, and inevitably failing, he despairs. Unlike Caeiro, who asks nothing of life, he asks too much. In his poetic meditation 'Tobacco Shop' he asks:. Mensagem , [72] written in Portuguese, is a symbolist epic made up of 44 short poems organized in three parts or Cycles: The first two poems "The castles" and "The escutcheons" draw inspiration from the material and spiritual natures of Portugal.

Each of the remaining poems associates to each charge a historical personality.

Ultimately they all lead to the Golden Age of Discovery. Pessoa brings the reader to the present as if he had woken up from a dream of the past, to fall in a dream of the future: The third Cycle, called "O Encoberto" "The Hidden One" , refers to Pessoa's vision of a future world of peace and the Fifth Empire which, according to Pessoa, is spiritual and not material, because if it were material England would already have achieved it.

The Hidden One represents the fulfillment of the destiny of mankind, designed by God since before Time, and the accomplishment of Portugal. King Sebastian is very important, indeed he appears in all three parts of Mensagem. He represents the capacity of dreaming, and believing that it's possible to achieve dreams. One of the most famous quotes from Mensagem is the first line from O Infante belonging to the second Part , which is Deus quer, o homem sonha, a obra nasce which translates roughly to "God wishes, man dreams, the work is born".

This poem refers to Ulysses , king of Ithaca , as Lisbon's founder recalling an ancient Greek myth. The articles disclose Pessoa as a connoisseur of modern European literature and an expert of recent literary trends. On the other hand, he does not care much for a methodology of analysis or problems in the history of ideas. The philosophical notes of young Fernando Pessoa, mostly written between and , illustrate his debt to the history of Philosophy more through commentators than through a first-hand protracted reading of the Classics, ancient or modern. Such pantheist transcendentalism is used by Pessoa to define the project that "encompasses and exceeds all systems"; to characterize the new poetry of Saudosismo where the "typical contradiction of this system" occurs; to inquire of the particular social and political results of its adoption as the leading cultural paradigm; and, at last, he hints that metaphysics and religiosity strive "to find in everything a beyond".

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Fernando Pessoa

In Pessoa, Fernando Manuela Parreira da Silva. Fernando Pessoa , Lisboa: Geerdts, letter to Dr. Faustino Antunes , 10 April Jan—Mar , Orpheu in Portuguese 1—2 , Lisboa: Oct — Feb , Athena in Portuguese 1—5 , Lisboa: Imprensa Libanio da Silva. Shearsman Books, archived from the original on 2 April , retrieved 28 July Edited and with an introduction By Josiah Blackmore.

She traveled to Switzerland in November , with her daughter and son-in-law, recently married. Retrieved 13 February Fernando Pessoa hat in der Poesie Alberto Caeiros seinen Meister gesehen", "A modern guardian of things; The discovery of the great Portuguese continues: Die Dinge, wie er sie sieht, sind als was sie scheinen. Sein Pan-Deismus basiert auf einer Ding- Metaphysik , die in der modernen Dichtung des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts noch Schule machen sollte. The things, as he sees them, are as they seem. His pandeism is based on a metaphysical thing, which should still become a school of thought under the modern seal of the twentieth century.

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