Message

Fernando Pessoa · 1934 CE · Poem · Portuguese · Modernist

Forty-four short poems set out the whole Portuguese story as a heraldic device: Ulysses founding Lisbon by never having been there, the fathers and mothers of the dynasty laid out as fields on a shield, then the navigators standing at the rail of the Atlantic. The third part waits on the king who vanished in Morocco and the empire that is supposed to follow him. The only Portuguese book Pessoa published in his lifetime and the one he signed himself; it answers the epic of Camões by refusing to narrate.

Open Message in the archive — filters, lineage graph and full facet browsing.

Lineage

• responds to ↑ The Lusiads
  Luís de Camões · 1572 CE · Poem

Attributes

Closest analogues

• The Lusiads
  Luís de Camões · 1572 CE · Poem

  81% · 18 shared
  PoemEpicHistoricalFame & GloryJourney & QuestRuler / KingExplorerHeroEpisodicThe SeaThe Ship / BoatThe CrownThe Horizonvs Fate / Godsvs NatureMythicLyricalPortuguese
• The Book of Dede Korkut
  Anonymous · c. 1400 CE · Poem

  52% · 11 shared
  PoemEpicHistoricalFame & GloryTraditionRuler / KingHeroEpisodicThe HorizonMythicElegiac
• The Dynasty of Raghu
  Kalidasa · c. 400 CE · Poem

  49% · 11 shared
  PoemEpicHistoricalFame & GloryTraditionRuler / KingHeroThe Crownvs Fate / GodsMythicElegiac
• The Guardian of the Word
  Camara Laye · 1978 CE · Novel

  49% · 10 shared
  EpicHistoricalJourney & QuestTraditionRuler / KingHeroThe Crownvs Fate / GodsMythicLyrical
• Heimskringla
  Snorri Sturluson · c. 1230 CE · Novel

  49% · 10 shared
  EpicHistoricalFame & GloryRuler / KingHeroEpisodicThe Ship / BoatThe Crownvs Fate / GodsElegiac
• Jangar
  Oirat oral epic · c. 1600 CE · Poem

  44% · 9 shared
  PoemEpicFame & GloryHopeRuler / KingHeroEpisodicThe HorizonMythic