Selected PoemsThe writing of Fernando Pessoa reveals a mind shaken by intense inner suffering. In these poems he adopted four separate personae: Alberto Caeiro, Alvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis and himself, using them to express 'great swarms of thought and feeling'. While each personae has its own poetic identity, together they convey a sense of ambivalence and consolidate a striving for completeness. Dramatic, lyrical, Christian, pagan, old and modern, Pessoa's poets and poetry contribute to the 'mysterious importance of existence'. |
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ache Alberto Caeiro Álvaro de Campos anguish Apollo's Chariot believe body born breeze calm chill chocolates Christ clear cloud comes Crown dark death divine simplicity door dream earth eternal exist false Fama Fraternitatis feel Fernando Pessoa flowers and trees Francis Ponge free verse gaze gods hand happy hear heard heart heteronyms Huge Hours ideas inner meaning invoke kind laundress light lightly Lisbon Lonely Guides lost meadows metaphysics moonlight and sun moving mystery Nature never night Octavio Paz paganism passes perhaps picking flowers poems poet poetry rain Rhythm Ricardo Reis ritual roses serene shadow shop-sign shut silence singing sleep smile sorrow soul sound stars stay stream street suddenly Terrible Cold Theosophy There's things thought tired tiredness Tobacconist's trees and hills Triumphal truth universe useless vaguely verses W. B. Yeats walk whole window write wrote