/lit/ - Literature

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Portugal will be the leading world superpower by 2198.

ESSAY ON POETRY

Written for the edification and for the instruction of would-be poets.

When I consider the abundance of young men and the superabundance of young women in the present century, when I survey the necessary and consequent profusion of reciprocal attachments, when I reflect upon the great number of poetical compositions emanating therefrom, when I bring my mind to bear upon the insanity and chaotic formation of these effusions, I am readily convinced that by writing an expository essay of the poetical art I shall be greatly contributing to the emolument of the public.

Having therefore carefully considered the best and most practical way in which to open so relevant a discussion, I have not unwisely concluded that a straightforward statement of the rules of poetry is the manner in which I must present the subject to the reader. I have thought it useless and inappropriate to refer myself too often to the ancient critics on the art, since modern critics are pleasanter to quote and have said all that was to be said on the matter, and a little more - which is their part, where they are original. For putting aside the critics of eld I have two excellent reasons of which the second is that, even if I did know anything about them, I should not like to trust my scholarship on the reader. I begin then my exposition.

Regressem a casa, irmãos lusos.

Frnundoo Psoa

You did skip the whole Western canon after the Greeks and proceed with the Portuguese, right anon?

Y'all should read Fernando Pessoa. He's the best Portuguese poet. And a fucking alcoholic. An interesting person indeed

>>14873535
Write about all your non-lives you live non-livingly

What are books that correctly identify marketing and advertisement as the real antichrist of our modern civilization, and the way it betrayed humanity?

The book of dis quiet nigga: fool just go outside baka

>His love of invented names began early: at the age of six, he wrote letters under the French name Chevalier de Pas, and soon moved on to English personae such as Alexander Search and Charles Robert Anon
>Charles Robert Anon
Pessoa was the OG Anon confirmed

What are some authors that dwelled on occultism?

>>12464659
>>12464634
>>12462568
dreaming is, you utter plebs

What are some sadboys in literature? Pic related.

Stop living.

>>11464264
Pessoa you fuck

>Pessoa’s sexual abstinence (it is probable, though not provable, that he died a virgin) was by his own account a conscious choice, which he apparently sought to justify in The Book of Disquiet, with passages insisting on the impossibility of possessing another body, on the superiority of love in two dimensions (enjoyed by couples that inhabit paintings, stained-glass windows and Chinese teacups), and on the virtues of renunciation and asceticism.
was pessoa the first hiki?

What's the best sentence you've ever read and how did it impact on you? Not on the purpose to be compared to others, as if it's better or worse, but just why it is good to you.
It can be taken from poetry, fiction or non-fiction, anything /lit/ related.
My vote goes to this part of Tabacaria by Pessoa's heteronym Álvaro de Campos:
"O mundo é para quem nasce para o conquistar
E não para quem sonha que pode conquistá-lo, ainda que tenha razão."
or in the english translation: "The world is for those born to conquer it
And not for those who dream they can conquer it, even though they may be right."
To those wanting to start Pessoa, this poem could be a door.

What was their problem, /lit/?

Was he, dare I say it, /our guy/?

What does /lit/ think of Pessoa?

And Portuguese writers in general

>>9066079
>Portugal doesn't have good literature
I think you're the one with low IQ

>A escravatura é lógica e legítima; um zulu ou um landim não representa coisa alguma de útil neste mundo. Civilizá-lo, quer religiosamente, quer de outra forma qualquer, é querer-lhe dar aquilo que ele não pode ter. O legítimo é obrigá-lo, visto que não é gente, a servir os fins da civilização. Escravizá-lo é que é lógico, o degenerado conceito igualitário, com que o cristianismo envenenou os nossos conceitos sociais, prejudicou, porém, esta lógica atitude. Povos, como o inglês, hipocritizaram o conceito, e assim conseguiram servir a civilização.

Translation:

>Slavery is rational and legitimate; a zulu or a landim does not represent anything useful in this world. To civilize it, either by religion or by any other means, is to try to give him something that he cannot acquire. The right thing to do is to force him - since he is not a person - to serve the ends of civilization. To enslave him is rational; the degenerate igualitarian concept, with which Christianity has poisoned our social concepts, has damaged, however, this rational attitude. Some peoples, like the English, have hypocritized the concept, and thus managed to serve civilization.

SOURCE: http://arquivopessoa.net/textos/1013