Cesário Verde: The Sentiment of a Westerner

19 Outubro 2017, 10:00 • Helena Carvalhão Buescu

The structure of the poem, in terms of 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 or an epic poem still possible by the end of the 19th Century? The past as glorious; the present as melancholy and nostalgia. The ill Poet and the capitalist City.