His father died when he was five and two years later his mother married the portuguese consul in durban. Finding an answer for this question is the incipient challenge of this essay. In this poem, pessoa wanted to highlight the difficulties and complications of attempted expression of love. Cancioneiro, fernando pessoa, pe pessoa revisitado. It is sometimes said that the four greatest portuguese poets of modern times are fernando pessoa.
The statement is possible since pessoa, whose name means person in portuguese, had three alter egos. Fernando pessoa was born in lisbon into a wellestablished middleclass family on june 1888. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Pessoa spent the formative years of his youth in south africa and was educated in the local schools where he received a thorough grounding in. Another interpretation of the poem also speaks of the uncertainty of love, the lack of explanation for this feeling that overcomes the barriers of logic and common sense. Fernando pessoa replies to hamlet, in revista pessoa, n 3, lisboa, pp.
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