Meaning of the poem Autopsychography by Fernando Pessoa

Or poem Autopsychography This poetic work is authored by Fernando Pessoa that reveals the identity of a poet and addresses the process of writing poetry.

The verses, written on April 1, 1931, were published for the first time in Presença magazine number 36, launched in Coimbra, in November 1932.

Autopsychography It is one of the most well-known poems of Fernando Pessoa, two of the greatest poets of the Portuguese language.

Discover below an analysis of two consecrated Spanish verses.

Poem Autopsychography na whole

O poet is a pretense
Pretend completely
What do you want to pretend that you are
To dor that you really sit.

What I read or what I wrote,
Na dor lida sentem bem,
No as duas que teve you,
More than that eles não têm.

E assim nas calhas de roda
Turn, to entertain at reason,
Esse comboio de corda
That is chama coração.

Interpretation of the poem Autopsychography

A psychography consists of a representation of psychic phenomena or a psychological description of some person. "Auto", for the time, is a thermo used to designate when we refer to ourselves, transmitting to their own name.

In this way, it is possible to say that as the word "autopsychography", or author intends to address some of his psychological characteristics. O poet mentioned in this poetic work and, therefore, or Fernando Pessoa himself.

The first stanza is possible to verify the existence of a metaphor that classifies the poet as a pretense. Isso does not mean that the poet is a liar or someone dissimulated, rather than him. capable of transforming our own feelings that are within it. For that reason, I managed to express myself in a unique way.

O poet is a pretense
Pretend completely
What do you want to pretend that you are
To dor that you really sit.

It is not common sense or conceit of the feigning custom with a pejorative meaning, we are afraid of Fernando Pessoa's verses. or pretense is an instrument of literary creation.

Second or dictionary, pretend vem do latim I will pretend e means "to model in clay, to sculpt, reproduce the traces of, represent, imagine, pretend, invent".

Fernando Pessoa's ability to pretend explains to the baby two various heteronic hairs that he became aware of. You most famous heteronomous people are Álvaro de Campos, Alberto Caeiro and Ricardo Reis.

Fernando Pessoa manages to address various emotions and transform himself in each one of them, thus raising different people with different ways of being and feeling.

What I read or what I wrote,
Na dor lida sentem bem,
No as duas que teve you,
More than that eles não têm.

We see the second stanza that the poet's ability to express certain emotions awakens feelings that he does not read. Despite disso, or that the reader does not say that he or she (ou a emoção) that the poet felt that "pretend", but a dor derived from the interpretation of the poem's reading.

The duas dores that are mentioned are the original that the poet said to "pretend", that he was the original that was transformed into a poet.

The third and last verse, or heart, is described as a string combo (trem), which rotates and is intended to distract or amuse by reason. We see in this case an emoção / reason dichotomy that is part of the poet's daily life. We can then conclude that either the poet uses his or her intellect (reason) to transform the feeling (emotion) that makes him or her live.

E assim nas calhas de roda
Turn, to entertain at reason,
Esse comboio de corda
That is chama coração.

Autopsychography he stands tall from um game of repetições que cativa or leitor I want to know more about the construction of the poem and about the personality of the poet.

We can affirm that it is about um metapoem, ou seja, a poem that doubles on itself and thematizes as its own engrenagens. Or that makes it transparent to the reader through the mechanisms of composition of the work, giving the reader a privileged access to the backstage of the creation. O prazer is obtained precisely from the fate of the poem to be generously explained to the public.

Structure of the poem Autopsychography

Or poem is composed by three stanzas, with 4 verses (quartetos) that appear cross rhyme, meaning that the first verse rhymes as or third and or second rhymes as fourth.

Relatively to the poem scan Autopsychography (to its metric), or poem qualifies as um redondilha maior, or that means that the verses are seven syllables, ou seja, têm 7 syllables.

About a publication of Autopsychography

Consecrated verses by Fernando Pessoa were published for the first time in Presença magazine number 36.

A edition was launched in Coimbra, in November 1932. The original poem was written on April 1, 1931.

Or declaimed poem

You verses of Autopsychography, by Fernando Pessoa, foram recited by Paulo Autran and you find it online:

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Formed in Literature at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (2010), Master of Literature at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2013) and doutora in Studies of Culture of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and of the Portuguese Catholic University of Lisbon (2018).