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Hello everyone and welcome to another class in Portuguese with Professor Sofia Pedro
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and we will finish the analysis of the message with the analysis of the last part of the covert, i.e. the
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times fando Pessoa for the subdivision of the covert chose the title the times
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Fernando Pessoa had already used this expression in the poem Fifth Empire in the fourth stanza of that poem he
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then tells us the following after the four times of the being he dreamed of and what will
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those times be or what do those times seem to be they seem to be the empires that had already been
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mentioned also by Fernando Pessoa, four of which have already been passed and the fifth
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Empire will be So this future Empire that is to come then if the first part of the covert one
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spoke of symbols and in that case the perfect and absolute symbol will then be the image of
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Dom Sebastião Therefore it will be the covert one the desired one expected in the second part we would have
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Then the prophets who will reveal this prophecy and the third part will be So what
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will come then what times are prophesied namely the future time of the fifth empire
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and the poem that begins this third and final part of the message is entitled night and I will read
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the poem first anal night of one of them had been lost in the Indefinite sea the second asked
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the king for permission to, in faith and in the law of discovery, go in search of his brother in the endless sea and the dark snow
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time was neither first nor second he returned from the deep end of the unknown sea to the Fatherland for whom he had given the
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riddle he had asked then the third to the King asked for permission to search for them and the King denied as a captive
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the they hear the servants of the manor passing by and when they come the figure of fever and Bitterness with fixed
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blue eyes dist sir the two brothers of our name the power and the renown both went by the sea
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from age to your eternity and with them from us gone what made the Soul could be a hero we want to go and
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get them from this Vile Our servile prison is the busa of who we are the distance from us in Fever Hold
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hands we lift but God does not give permission for us to leave this is the first phase of
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The fifth Empire is in the Night That Seth will begin to draw this future and the light that will appear later
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on the horizon of Portugal and to show this emergence of night passing into day Fernando
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Pessoa will choose a tragic seafaring drama the poem refers to the episode of the exploration of America
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by the Corte Real brothers and which will also end up victimizing them João Vas Corte-Real had three
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sons and all of them were explorers Gaspar Corte-Real Miguel Corte-Real and Vasco Anes Corte-Real,
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they were all navigators and explorers involved in trips to the seas to the Northwest of the Azores
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Now Gaspar Correal's career as an independent explorer took off when King Dom Manuel first,
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on May 12, 1500, donated to him the captaincy of interest and of all the islands and lands he
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discovered
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in the North Atlantic
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. the other two brothers Miguel Corte
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Real and Vasco Anes Corte Real continued with this legacy of exploration however Miguel Corte Real
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decided to go in search of his missing brother and in 1502 in one of the missions he carried out
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to find his brother he himself also ended up disappearing from the three ships he took to
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look for his brother he had one ship separated from the other two ships and only two
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of the ships returned and Miguel Corte Real's ship ended up never returning and never being found
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in 1503 Corto Real wanted to go in search of his missing brothers but King Dom Manuel did not
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give him permission since if he too disappeared the lineage would end
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with him and he ended up succeeding his father as Captain of the birthplace in Angra on the Island of São
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Jorge
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Sebastião were
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born when we read the poem, however, we see that Fernando Pessoa is not just referring to two
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deaths, therefore to the two brothers, but also to three deaths, two dead plus one dead in Life once,
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that the third brother was unable to fulfill his wish which was to find his two brothers
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and this is how the first stanza will then report the death of the first brother and the search for the second
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brother the second stanza shows us the end of the story the story is completed and we see how
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after some time neither the First nor the second brother appeared and the third brother
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Despite wanting to go looking for his two brothers he ended up having his request denied by King
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Dom Manuel i.e. this disappearance of these two historical figures ends up being more of a mystery,
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it's a enigma that no one has yet managed to unravel and this mystery these deaths to be unraveled end up
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becoming entangled in a greater destiny that is still unknown, the sea in this case ends up becoming
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a Divine instrument that operates in the destiny of men and the remaining brother, brother Vasco, ends up
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suffering and this suffering is his destiny, he will then come to symbolize something that will also be a symbol,
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a symbol of all the Sufferings in the third stanza Vasco is now alone and is his father's successor, he
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gains the position of Captain of the natário and then takes up residence in the Captain's house in
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Angra do heroísmo, it is a manor house made of cold stone and even more so since the person occupying it now
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is this Captain who has an empty heart, the space is crossed by him in a worried way like a
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captive disturbed not only by his memories but also by his guilt, however, he continues with his
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eyes shallow with longing with the hope of seeing his brothers again and the fourth stanza becomes
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completely symbolic as with a metaphor sir the two brothers of our name the power and
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renown And this is how Fernando thought when he took on the death of the two brothers he will incorporate the mystery
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and in that mystery he will incorporate the elements of Revelation and this personal tragedy of a
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family will become the universal tragedy of a nation Gaspar and Miguel no longer have a
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human name, they no longer have a human face and they become power and renown And once again,
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just as it had already happened with Dom Sebastião who stopped being called Dom Sebastião
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to be called the hidden one, we now have The Annihilation of individual in relation to a
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people just as power and renown died, so did the power and renown of Portugal But they
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disappeared in a mystery, fame fades in this enigma and once they disappeared,
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their bodies were not found, they always remain in this most mysterious aura of symbols
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or myths and the fifth and sixth stanzas will transpose this drama precisely to the
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Vasco nation in its solitude and unrest. It will then represent all the Portuguese and what is
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the salvation for the country for this Marasmus in which the country was fallen and this search is to get out
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of this servile prison in which we find ourselves, but we cannot forget that this is not a
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Material search but rather a spiritual search for the light of knowledge, it is in the search for the Truth that
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we will find God and Fernando Pessoa concludes the poem at
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night with great sadness, sadness upon
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realizing the great difficulty of fulfilling this personal objective without having Divine help
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. It could be that
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deep restlessness sweats us or the desire to be able to want this is the Mystery that the night is Faust but suddenly where
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the wind roars the Lightning Lighthouse of God an aust shines and the dark sea is truge being like this at
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night then follows The storm and after a night in which reality appears veiled in this
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darkness hidden from the eyes and only felt by our intuition The storm It will
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then represent a beginning an agitation of this new life that is to come and the first stanza of storm
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brings us the abyss and an abyss that had already appeared in two other poems of the second part of
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message portuguese sea and rise of Vasco da Gama but this abyss that is now referred to
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in this poem Tormenta is not the surface but rather what is below the surface i.e.
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what is under the sea the infinite and in this case it is the full power of everything that Portugal can
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be but that we cannot see on the surface so we cannot see immediately
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but that we have to intuit we have to infer and that implies this power, this essence of
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Portugal is waiting to be fulfilled and this desire to come true is the reason we want to come to
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fruition is the desire to be able to want, we just need to want to be able to rise from the bottom
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of the ocean. Now here the poetic subject asks about the country's situation and ends up answering
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that Portugal is unhappy and
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still has a destiny
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to fulfill.
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the mystery that the night is Faust In other words, it is this mystery that is the most magnificent
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essence of the night in the midst of this restlessness, a flash of lightning appears, the Divine lighthouse, this points to the
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divine intervention without which nothing happens, it is this permission that we were waiting for and
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which is now marked by this lightning, by this light that comes from the ether of the Divine in the night,
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we did not yet have this authorization, therefore we did not have this lightning, this divine indication
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, but here it already appears, implied, it is a beam of light that breaks the night and stirs the dark sea
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with the current of this New Life this also goes to show that the country ends up not being happy
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with the situation in which it finds itself and it is a period of crisis both political and
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economic and from the second we then move on to the third poem of the times and in this case calm and
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I will start reading the third poem Calma that Coast is that the waves count and if they cannot find no matter
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how many Ships there are in the sea what do the waves find and you never see this sound of the
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sea washing up where is there a nearby and remote Island that in the ears persists for the sight
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there is no that ship that armed that Fleet can find the way the beach where the sea insists if H Vista the
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sea is alone There will be tears in the space that lead to the other side and that theirs found here
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where there is only sargassum a veiled island will emerge the fortunate country that keeps the king banished in her
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life Enchanted being like this Calm will then be the third of times and this new life after
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that impulse of force that we had seen In the Storm comes out of the night to an Unexpected calm
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almost like a reflection or a contemplation normally in the language of the Navigators it is said
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that after the Storm The calm comes and it is at this moment that the return is impossible now there is no
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turning back from the moment the wheels begin to move therefore this New Life
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emerging we can no longer stop the new work it will be started by the lightning therefore we then had
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divine permission for the beginning of the advent of this new life and now what we can do is wait
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calmly in conscience in the first stanza Let's take up a theme that we had already seen in the
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fortunate islands
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where we are sure that there is no physical Coast where we can land on this
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journey
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of ours, and that the poet will dematerialize everything so that we can reach the pure
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essence
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. fortunate island where it is said that Dom Sebastião lives while he is waiting
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to be able to return shows that this Island does not exist it is present in our subconscious
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But our eyes cannot see it and the Poet ends up removing all physical consistency it is
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an island that is a thought island not a real island it is an island that can only be found in our dreams and
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in our thoughts and that is why this island is a spiritual objective that no one will be able to
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find because it is not the Navas that will have to go to it but the soul in the third stanza
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we continue to reinforce this idea that this Island does not exist and in this Calm that we find
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in this poem all physical certainties disappear it is no coincidence that we all leave the night for
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this adventure the night makes us all equal and brings that balance that ends up making
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all differences in personalities disappear this Calm that will assault us now after the
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night ends up being a fear but at the same time also a courage waiting for what is coming and
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We know that it will take great courage to be able to believe in something that
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we cannot see and that is not real nor is it concrete on a physical level since there is no country where
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this exiled King is found only the symbol will resist only this myth will resist
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and it is fragile it is invisible and it takes great courage to be able to Believe
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in it and from calm we move on to the fourth quarter before morning and I will start reading the poem fourth quarter
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before morning the monster that is at the end of the sea came from the Darkness looking for the dawn of the new day
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of the new day without ending and said who sleeps remembering that he has unveiled the second world nor does the
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third want to unravel and the sound in the darkness of it spinning is bad for the sad sleep dreaming swirled and
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gone a dream that his lord came here to get who came here his lord to call to call the one
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who is sleeping and he was once Lord of the sea before-morning before-morning is the moment of the day when
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we have the Dawn when the day is emerging in Alvorada it is not yet the full day It is not yet
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the realization of what we were waiting for but it is the path to get there and it is already
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closer so we are leaving the night it is a moment of transition and therefore if we look for
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the previous poems we start in the night and after the night the soul decides In the Storm to start acting
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and calmly be aware and prepare for the advent of what is coming and what is happening
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so now we see the emergence of a new day in the fore-morning this fore-morning will lead to a
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future that has not arrived yet and that is why it still is incognito is still uncertain obviously that all of this
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will unfold in an immaterial symbolic space almost as if it were a dream this is a
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formless sea and this is an immaterial ship and the monster appears here in a way a little different
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from that which We had already encountered previously we have here a monster much more symbolic
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much more enigmatic much more mysterious while in the second part of the message
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Portuguese sea we had the poem mostrengo And then the monster was much more human even though it was
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made of rock it had human feelings in this poem a foreign is transformed into a symbol that is less
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alive, more unreal, stripped of any feeling that we had seen in the other poem and
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also illuminated with another light. He is the one who will now emerge from the Darkness looking for this new day
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and a new day that we know will mean the beginning of a new era And now He is the one who will
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warn, he is the one who will speak when before it was he who was astonished by the passage of the Portuguese
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and the little monster here asks a rhetorical question who sleeps remembering that he has discovered the
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second world, he doesn't even want to reveal the third and this rhetorical question of the monstrongo is
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intentionally left in the emptiness of the sea is a kind of reflection of a question that forces the reader to think
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to reflect precisely on this situation in which he finds himself at this moment and in the second
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stanza the monstrongo shows the need to abandon himself in the second world in favor of the third and
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it is also a fact that at this moment the monstrongo ends up abandoning the man he leaves
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and the man is left alone and at this moment not even a monstrongo remains from the past and what we realize
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is that he After all it was an illusion an fantasies and another almost deified will And when this
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Lord of the sea leaves It is then the true Dawn of the new day we have to leave
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behind We have to make a cut with the past so that we can build a new future and this
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morning will also take a little bit of the idea of the deado that we find in the coat of arms he will be
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what will be the prehistory will be the basis of the aste and person envato said then the following your
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being is like That cold light that precedes the dawn and is already going to see the day in Before morning I confused nothing
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and we finished the message this third part of the overcast with the fifth period of fog and I will start
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reading the poem fifth fog neither king nor law nor peace nor war defines with profile and to be this
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glow Basso of the earth that is Portugal saddening brightness without light and without burning Like the fire in fact
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Serra no one knows what thing they want no one knows what soul has neither what is bad nor what
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is good that longing distant close cries everything is uncertain and ultimate everything is dispersed, nothing
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is whole, Portugal, today you are fog, it's time to al frat, despite being the last poem in the message, no
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we will end in a great climax or Apotheosis we have precisely the opposite here and everything he says
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in this poem is nothing that hasn't already been said before it's almost like we're making a
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circle about this poem that will close now and I'll come back to remember here everything I
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had already said before and this desire for a new beginning This is a more closed poem it's a
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sadder poem it's a poem of conclusion and it shows this sense of mission That We had already seen
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throughout the message it still won't be the poem to glorify this New Empire this new world but
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rather a bridge to the future this fog in which we still find ourselves but when
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it dissipates it will bring this Clear day and it is precisely this new sun that will destroy
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the fog in which we find ourselves there is a scream there is a final scream in this poem it is the time and this hour
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is the end of the work it is the completion of the mission we do not understand very well what time it will be whether human or
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divine but we know that it is inevitable there are certainties of the time it has to happen and for Fernando Pessoa
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this is the moment enough of sleeping, enough of dreaming, enough to be Under this new and it's
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time to wake up it's time to get out of this haze of knowledge and move
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on to the clear day which is clearly our destiny the monster is gone and now it's up
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to us to take an action and what that action is it's an immaterial action it's an action to reveal all these
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mysteries that we had been seeing throughout the message and that had already been announced to us by
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several prophets Including Fernando Pessoa himself and the message of the message is precisely
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So this search for No intimate this reason that illuminates life and is worth living
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and despite this sadness that we will find in this poem This is a very optimistic
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and very positive message and we will end the message precisely with this appeal with this strong hug
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the alete fratres goodbye brothers will not just be a goodbye but will be a see you soon this is an utterance in Latin that
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is taken from a Masonic ritual and therefore will have a very hermetic meaning and
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Fernando Pessoa seems to be communicating that he is going to say goodbye to all those initiated his
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brothers Templars and Cruzes who will understand precisely the meaning of their words and
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through them will act for the future of Portugal is a present goodbye that will be launched into
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the future this poem presents us with the situation of Portugal in a very negative way
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since the nation is in decline lacking the vitality the determination to
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overcome this Marasmus in which it finds itself. Furthermore, we also have a nation plunged into a
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situation of certainty, so and following the country's situation the state of Portuguese spirits
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is one of confusion and of disorientation is an apathy of dismay and also a lack of hope it seems
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that the people do not have the necessary will to get back on their feet so what is this desire that says so much
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crying is the idea of a strong desire that in the future Portugal will be able to be reborn and become glorious again
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there is a present sadness because in the present this desire has not yet been achieved and that is why
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this final exclamation ends up functioning as an exhortation it is an encouragement on the part of the
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poetic subject to the Portuguese people to act so the time has come to Portugal's resurgence of
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fulfilling the mission for which it was destined and founding this fifth spiritual Empire
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we can consider that it is very important for the poetic subject at this time since he
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puts it in capital letters but there is still hope for the country since it is from the noeirinha
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to emerge for a new life and here we will also look for the Sebastianist symbol that suggests that
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Dom Sebastião will return one day again and therefore the noeiro represents just a phase
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that will anticipate the advent of a much greater moment and that will be so the anticipation of the fifth
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Portuguese empire this walet frates shows So the recipients of this exhortation the Portuguese
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all those who understand the meaning of the words and the message of the message and who will So
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fulfill the mission The question destined And what is it to rise up and fight for this Portugal and for
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this fifth empire and this Empire is an empire of human fraternity and hence the word frates
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brothers, so in this message we find a very Epic
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metaphorical
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and
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prophetic
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vision .
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ulices to Dom Sebastião and
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find in this small people of discoveries the great race that will leave in search of a
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new India not to conquer a material empire but rather a spiritual empire and fulfill the
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Divine design of a fifth empire and thus we finish the analysis of Fernando Pessoa's message.
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Thank you for your attention and see you in the next class in Portuguese with Professor Sofia Pedro
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