The New Portuguese Poetry Sociologically Considered Excerpt
Pt. Ed. - Martins The New Portuguese Poetry Sociologically Considered En. Ed. - Balden Fernando Pessoa I [7] To the literary movement representative and peculiar of the nascent portuguese generation, there has been made, by public opinion, the favor of not being comprehended. And this movement, that, above all in poetry, with growing neatness, accuses its representative individuality, has not been comprehended, because, a part of the public, which is older than thirty years of age, is inadaptilizable, by being already old, to this movement, and rumor, before it, of innate uncomprehending ones; because another part, either for circumstances of a baccalaureate educative species, or for carelessness in the spiritual maintenance of the sentiment of race, or yet for sentiments of devious and sterile enthusiasm generated by absorption in the intense and petty life of our politics, is placed in a state of pseudo-soul, describable as being of uncomprehending ones of occasion; and because the other, remainder, belonging to which are the new poets and literary ones and the ones that accompany them in the obscure racial sentiment that guides them, they do not yet take conscientiousness of itself as what it really is, whereas the actual poetic movement is yet an embryo as to its tendencies, nebulous as to its ideas that it may have of itself or of other things. It urges that — setting it apart from mysticisms of thought and of expression, useful only for awakening by the ridiculous, that its obscurity for the profane {ones/things} causes, the happy interest of the social enemy — with reasonings and hawkish analyses one penetrates into the comprehension of the actual portuguese poetic movement, one asks to the national soul, in its {reflected/ mirrored/polished/shining,} what it intends and to what it tends, and whether it may put in terms of logical comprehensibility the value and the signification, in presence of sociology, of this literary and artistic movement.
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