" This man titles a poem in which he asks "Without madness what is man, / but a healthy beast, / a postponed corpse that breeds?". "
This man's soul ascends to heaven during the "interval in which the soul is steeped in dreams that are God" in a poetry cycle that culminates with his resurrection; that cycle about him includes the poem "Ulysses," which describes "the dead body of God / lying nude" and claims "Myth is the nothing that is everything." This man titles a poem in which he asks "Without madness what is man, / but a healthy beast, / a postponed corpse that breeds?". "Eras upon Eras" will vanish when this man returns--at least, according to a group of poems that opens by describing his "coat of arms." Alberto Caeiro and Alvaro de Campos claimed that the return of this man will bring about the spiritual "Fifth Empire" and usher in a "New Renaissance." A poetic cycle called Mensagem by Fernando Pessoa imagines the resurrection of, for 10 points, what Portuguese king, the dedicatee of The Lusiads?
This man's soul ascends to heaven during the "interval in which the soul is steeped in dreams that are God" in a poetry cycle that culminates with his resurrection; that cycle about him includes the poem "Ulysses," which describes "the dead body of God / lying nude" and claims "Myth is the nothing that is everything.
King Sebastian