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Hello everyone and welcome to another class in Portuguese with Professor Sofia Pedro,
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let's continue studying the message and let's continue working on the third part of the
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message, what was covered up in the last class, we were dealing with the first part of the covert, i.e.
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the symbols and let's move on to the analysis of the second part of the covert, i.e. the
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warnings, and in this second part, when Fernando Pessoa calls it the warnings, he may be
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referring to two things, the first being those who were warned, and who interpreted this
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return of Dom Sebastião in the correct way or also those who were warned that
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that return of Dom Sebastião in a carnal way is not the
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correct return or it could also be the warnings of those who will warn the prophets who
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will announce the return of this mythical King the return of this king who is not material but
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spiritual and who Fernando Pessoa chooses to be the first prophet of those who will
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announce the return of Dom Sebastião will then choose bandarra and I will then
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read the poem first Bandarra dreamed anonymously and dispersed the empire by God even though he was seen confused
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like the universe and commoner As Jesus Christ was neither Saint nor hero but God consecrated with
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his sign this one whose heart was not Portuguese but Portugal and Bandarra who is Bandarra is Gonçalo Anes
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de bandarra, a shoemaker from Trancoso who wrote some poems in which he made
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prophecies, was presumably born around 1500, which makes him a contemporary
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of us, we say as already he said, he was a popular prophet who wrote some prophecies in the
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form of thunder and which went through several editions. It is in these thunder that
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the reference to a hidden king will appear for the first time and this reference will appear precisely in Trova 75 and I will start
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reading the Trova Now the lion is smart, very alert, he has already woken up, he is on his way, he will take silk from the nest,
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and the pig will most certainly flee to the desert, and his roar shows that he is going to be hurt by this good
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King, who is hidden in these storms. shoemaker from Trancoso that Fernando Pesso will get a lot of
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his inspiration for the message and this first stanza of this poem will be a description
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of this Bandarra figure of what he was like, what his spirit was like
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and a since he dreamed anonymously and dispersed, what he saw, he saw through the dream, he is not a
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wise man, he has few concrete certainties about what he is saying, since he imagined
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the empire by God himself seen, that is, while he was dreaming, God saw and whoever dreams of a future
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to happen ends up being a prophet, dreams are not easy to interpret and are often
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confusing and that is why he remains in the realm of Mystery as someone of humble origins. We can
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even compare him to Jesus Christ as the one who will announce the Good News turns out not to
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be someone sanctified or a hero but was someone chosen by God to transmit this message
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and it was not an easy way to do so this dedication of his to Portugal shows his
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courage as it was demonstrated at a somewhat complicated time, that is, wrote
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in times of the Inquisition He also ended up being the target of an Inquisition process in 1541 but
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ended up receiving a light sentence and in this case his penalty was to participate in a procession as
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a penitent, in addition the inquisitorial sentence also prescribed the following and I will pass on read
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from now on if you no longer respond or write anything in
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sacred scripture or have any books of the same in the second stanza Fernando Pessoa will talk
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about the bandarra feats for which he was known, that is as chosen by God as
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prophet now and from the first warning Fernando Pessoa Then move on to the second prophet
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and who will he choose to take this role, Father António Vieira and I will then
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read the second poem of the second warnings António Vieira the sky stars blue and has greatness this one
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who had fame and glory has emperor of the Portuguese language was a sky also not
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yours to meditate constellated of form and vision appears foreshadowing Clear from the moonlight she reil Sebastião
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but no it is not Moon air is light of the ethereal it is a day and in the wide sky of desire the unreal dawn of the fifth
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Doira Empire The Banks of the Tagus now and who was Father António Vieira Father António Vieira was
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a Jesuit preacher orator Diplomat who was born in 1608 in Lisbon but left very early for Brazil
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where he would become a man and Preacher would be the prophet par excellence of the empire. Now when Father
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António Vieira was born Calmon had already died 28 years ago and we were in height of Filipino rule
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in Portugal and if Bandar had spoken of the return of a king hidden by precedence even before he
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was born, Father António Vieira speaks then with evidence, becoming a prestigious Jesuit,
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author of several sermons, a passionate speaker and with the sacred gift of oratory, he became a Diplomat with
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King Dom João IV and writes books where he talks about the fifth Empire, these books history of the future
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and Clau propheter, one writes them in secret, but the inquisition ends up knowing his intentions,
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puts them on top and prevents him from speaking, after receiving his sentence, Father António Vieira
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leaves for Rome, becomes very famous and such is his fame that the pope frees him from the Inquisition and
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Father António Vieira then decides to return to Brazil where he will die at the age of 90 and in the
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first stanza we then have the reference to the one who Fernando Pessoa considers as the emperor
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of the Portuguese language, this epithet that Fernando Pessoa goes giving Father António Vieira shows the
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respect and consideration that the poet had for this speaker and not only as a Prophetic voice
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of this fifth Empire, but also as a writer. In fact, he considers him to be the greatest writer
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in the language Portuguese and if the sky stars blue and has greatness, Vieira's greatness is no less great, which
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ends up being a sky as well. The second stanza focuses on this meditation on this reflection of Father
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António Vieira. This is a meditation constellated with forms and vision in other words, an enlightened meditating
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full of ideas Clear of reasoning But also of dreams and Prophetic vision and it is in this constellated
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meditating that a harbinger of moonlight will appear And this harbinger of Clear moonlight is he
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King Dom Sebastião and it is in the third stanza that we see that this moonlight is not the light of the moon but rather
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the harbinger of a day of a Bright day, it is the light of the ethereal, almost a new and Divine truth
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that will confront this human darkness, this beginning of one day it will then be the harbinger
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of this fifth Empire that is coming and what a light it is, it is a golden light, it is a light of knowledge of this
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new reality of this new Fraternity of this light of God that will fall on
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men and Fernando Pessoa then ends the warnings with the third This is the only poem without a title
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in the message and it begins as follows I write my book on the edge of heartache and I will
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read the third poem I write my book on the edge of heartache my heart doesn't have to have it I have my eyes
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hot with water only you, Lord, give me life, only feel and think about you, my days are filled with voids, but
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when will you want to return when you are the king? When is the time when you will become the Christ of whom
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the false God died and awaken from evil that the new earth and the new heavens when you will come to the
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hidden dream of the Portuguese ages to become more than the soo insertion of a great Desire that
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God made ah when will you want to return to make my hope love of the mist and Longing when when
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my dream and my lord it is apparent that Fernando Pessoa in this poem is referring to himself
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and it is curious that this poem does not have his name in the title Fernando Pessoa, perhaps because Fernando
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Pessoa believes that this is the mystery to be unraveled and something that it was not up to him to reveal either and for
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that reason perhaps he not if in the middle and only if it is insinuated, we also confirm that this entire
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poem is built through supplications through requests through questions and they are synonymous almost
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with lament, almost as if it were a disappointment, a certain frustration too and in the first stanza
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we then begin with the first verse I write my book at the edge of sorrow,
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this first verse can have three meanings here, so we can say that this book is dedicated to the shore of sorrow but that it
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could also have been written at the seaside since Portugal is a country by the sea or that it also he can
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to have been written on the verge of heartbreak and in this case it has to do with the feelings of the poet who is a recluse
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of his own ideas and when the subject says my heart doesn't have to have it could mean that
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the poet has given up Bitterly trying to fill the void that feel in your heart in favor of another Law
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and the verse that follows, the warm watery eyes are proof of that same emotion But it is a more
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contemplative which is then confirmed in the prayer that follows only you, Lord, give me life and it is in the second
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stanza that the person will reveal his passion for the mystery of King Dom Sebastião through the
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hidden research surrounding Dom Sebastião's return just by feeling and thinking my empty days fill and
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sweeten feeling as a symptom of emotion and thinking as a symptom of rationalism and intellectualism and
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this dichotomy is a dichotomy that we always find very present in poetry, both orthonyms
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and personal heteronyms, years and However, despite so much research, despite so much effort,
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people continue to doubt, they have their fears, they have their doubts, when will all this come
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true, when will you want to go back, when is the king? When is the time and these repetitions reinforce this
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fear, the fear that A mix of anticipation and doubt assails him, he is a poet, he is a poet who
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awaits the coming of this fifth Empire, the empire of the Spirit, in which everyone like him will have
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a prominent place, however the doubt still remains as to when this will happen in the third
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stanza we have again the question of when the King will return and hence the question
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when will you become the Christ, that is, when will this new symbol of a new Messiah return that
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will bring a new era to Portugal when Fernando Pessoa writes the Christ to whom the false God
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may be referring to the existentialism that announces the death of
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God at the end of the 19th century when Fernando Pessoa says then awakening from the evil that exists may be referring to his
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own way of feeling and seeing the world a Fernando Very dissatisfied person Fernando
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A very disturbed person who desires this New Earth and these new heavens as a way of achieving
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personal peace, which would obviously be a welcome remedy for
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Fernando Pessoa's constant concerns. The fourth stanza then brings us a conventional tone, the most intimate desires of
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Fernando Pessoa, when will you come undercover, will I become more than the uncertain breath and person
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feels different from other men, at the same time he feels a certain ambiguity of not knowing
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who he is or what destiny holds for him but at the same time he also feels upper to all other
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men and this means that he cannot have a normal life either and the fifth stanza will resume the
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tone of plea of despair that we had already seen in the first stanza and particularly here
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with the interjection ah when will you want to come back and Fernando Pessoa shows his desires, shows
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his desire for this new spiritual kingdom, it is a new kingdom that will be born from the Brotherhood of the Fraternity
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of Peace of Universal Love and this is a principle that we had already seen behind in the Rosa
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Cruz order, the person will finish the poem with a paradox my dream and my lord Now how is it that a dream
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that will be born by Fernando Pessoa himself can be his lord or in other words he can govern him because
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it is in the unconscious that everything will be born, it is in the unconscious that the idea of this new will be born
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kingdom that after being born from the dream will dominate reality and so at the same time it will be the dream
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but it will also be the lord and there we are going back to the beginning of the message at the moment
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when we had The myth is the nothing that is everything The myth is something that does not exist therefore it is born
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from our subconscious of our imagination of our dream but at the same time manages to transfer it
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to reality, transform it, modify it and build it. Here we finish the analysis of the
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second part of the covert the warnings and in the next class we will move on to the analysis of the third part of the
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covert time and let's finish analyzing Fernando Pessoa's message. Thank you for your
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attention and see you in the next class in Portuguese with Professor Sofia Pedro [Music] [Applause]
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