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Brazil’s poets include Drummond de Andrade, Vinicius de Moraes, and João Cabral de Melo Neto. Brazilian poetry often explores themes of love, nature, and social justice and is known for its musicality and rhythmic quality.
One important movement in Brazilian poetry was the Modernist movement of the 1920s, which sought to break free from traditional literary forms and explore new ways of expressing Brazilian identity and culture. This movement was led by poets such as Oswald de Andrade and Manuel Bandeira and was characterized by experimentation with language, form, and subject matter.
Another influential movement in Brazilian poetry was the Concrete Poetry movement of the 1950s and 1960s, which emphasized the visual and spatial aspects of poetry and sought to create works that were as much visual art as they were literary texts. Poets associated with this movement included Augusto de Campos and Décio Pignatari.
Brazilian poetry also played an important role in the resistance against the country’s military dictatorship in the 1960s and 1970s. Poets such as Ferreira Gullar and Thiago de Mello used their work to express political dissent and to call for social justice and democracy.
‘The Gates of Midnight’ is about death. It explores images of the afterlife and suggests that humanity has nothing to fear from leaving this life behind.
The angels come to open the gates of midnight, at the very moment when sleep is deepest and silence most pervasive.
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