Cesário Verde, "The Sentiment of a Westerner"

18 Outubro 2016, 10:00 • Helena Carvalhão Buescu

The structure of the poem, in terms os space (the city of Lisbon) and time (the span of an evening till dawn). The figure of the wanderer (flâneur): characteristics. Seeing and imagining: the Poet as the only way to combine reality and imagination. The memory of the epic: "a book", "an epic", "majestic lines": is an epic poet and poem still possible in the end of the 19th Century? The past as glorious; the possibility of a great future ("the auburn race"); the present as melancholy and nostalgic: "The Hollow Men", by T. S. Eliot.