Ricardo Reis as a representative of intellectualism and as a follower of philosophical (stoicism, epicurism) and literary (Horatian odes) traditions from Classical Antiquity. A poetry of 'control' in form and expression. The awareness of time and death as Man's greatest problem.

Alberto Caeiro as a representative of empiricism and as a follower of the tradition of pastoral melancholy. A poetry of 'complexity of the simple': an apparent and ironic simplicity that conceals the fact that he is a programatic poet - his program is to tell us not to think, which constitutes a program nevertheless.

Reading and discussion of "Not just those who envy and hate us", "Fruits are given by trees that live" and "Whise the man who's content with the world's spectacle" by Ricardo Reis; "II" and "XLIII" (from The Keeper of Sheep), "You say I'm something more" (from Uncollected Poems) by Alberto Caeiro. 

Fernando Pessoa (and all his (semi-)heteronyms) as an intellectual (ideas) rather than sentimental (feelings) poet.