Modernist Poetry

why do these threads always have to be a dick contest? why do we always pretend our opinions are Facts? how many times does the word "objective" get thrown around as if it had weight? why don't you admit you simply like one guy better than another and fill the blank space between them with all the cherry-picked criticism you could find on the subject?

you mad ahahah

Great thread

>In my opinion Pessoa is the Shakespeare of the 20th century.
Why you say so?

That would be boring desu
Plus, everyone know it's subjective so there's no use mentioning it

Lol

This thread may have saved me from writing anymore ego poetry. What you describe as elliot's conception of poetry is mine to a tee.

Question for you OP: I'm a Brazilian but I've lived in the US long enough that my English is much better than my Portuguese, which is actually pretty shit conversationally, although I can have a conversation fluently; my vocabulary is pretty limited though. I've been thinking about getting the Book of Disquiet in Portuguese, but I'm worried much of the Portuguese will go right over my head. Are there any other collections of Pessoa's work you think I'd be better off looking at, or would I be fine with The Book of Disquiet?

>tfw you're a robot autist but you were born in the right country so you get to read Pessoa untranslated

Not OP, but portuguese who has read The Book of Disquiet.

Not to discourage you, since it's a beautiful book which I wish you could read, but not only is the vocabulary very complex, it is also very reliant on complicated European grammar and syntax.
If you only have a limited knowledge of portuguese, brazillian at that, I'd recommend you get into some of his poetry and maybe some different, simpler portuguese prose for practice. You're not likely to need too much, but you definitely need to get some in.