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100% unironically. Dumbest posters here.

Careful they're going to spam this thread to try to get attention from us

>>211629272 (OP)
>>211629333
>>211629363
Ok Chikaner

>>211629272 (OP)
Fuckin A. Dumbest postes on this site by a nautical mile.

>>211629272 (OP)
why?

>>211629539
Carlos Drummond de Andrade is the author most often asked about in exams in Brazil.

>>211629600
what did he write about

>>211629333
Considering that the brazilians who speak english are a small elite minority from there, so it's pretty much the opposite

>>211629633

Poet, below is his most famous poem translated into English.

Elegy 1938

You work without joy for a lapsed world,
where forms and actions have no example.
You laboriously practice universal gestures,
you feel hot and cold, lack of money, hunger and sexual desire.

Heroes fill the parks of the city in which you drag yourself,
and advocate virtue, renunciation, cold-bloodedness, conception.
At night, if it's foggy, they open bronze umbrellas
or retreat to the volumes of sinister libraries.

You love the night for its power of annihilation
and you know that, when you sleep, you don't have to die.
But the terrible awakening proves the existence of the Great Machine
and restores you, tiny, in the face of indecipherable palm trees.

You walk among the dead and talk to them
about things of the future and the business of the spirit.
Literature has spoiled your best hours of love.
You've wasted a lot of time sowing seeds on the phone.

Proud heart, you're in a hurry to confess your defeat
and postpone collective happiness to another century.
You accept rain, war, unemployment and unfair distribution
because you can't dynamite the island of Manhattan by yourself.

>>211629684
You think it's wrong, there is no social cut-off for English speakers in Brazil. Most of them learn by playing video games, on this site the majority are middle class and lower middle class.

>>211629760
feels to me like its about accepting reality

>>211629684
It's relatively easy for Portuguese (or spanish, or french) speakers to learn english. It's not the same as learning english as a korean. The languages are very related and you will be exposed english language content regularly whether you like it or not.

The differences in grammar between western languages are relatively superficial compared to the differences between english and korean/japanese/thai where an entirely different way of thinking is needed to understand spoken speech

>>211629633
>>211629760
Formal translation is prob better

Elegy 1938
Translated by John Ryle & Fábio Araújo

You work without joy in a decaying world,
where no form or action sets an example.
You laboriously practice universal gestures;
you feel heat and cold, a lack of money, hunger, and sexual desire.

Heroes fill the city parks where you drag yourself,
preaching virtue, renunciation, cold-bloodedness, and conception.
At night, if there's fog, bronze umbrellas open,
or you retreat to the volumes of sinister libraries.

You love the night for its power to annihilate,
and you know that, sleeping, problems spare you death.
But the terrible awakening proves the existence of the Great Machine,
and restores you, the small one, before indecipherable palms.

You walk among the dead and talk to them
about future events and spiritual affairs.
Literature ruined your best hours of love.
On the phone you wasted long, long time sowing.

Proud heart, you hurry to confess your defeat,
and postpone collective happiness to another century.
You accept the rain, the war, unemployment, and unfair distribution
because you cannot, alone, blow up the island of Manhattan.

>>211629901
>>211629901
He is a brazilian modernist
The Brazilian Modernist movement was a major cultural and literary revolution that began in the early 20th century, particularly marked by the Semana de Arte Moderna (Modern Art Week) in São Paulo in 1922. It rejected traditional academic norms and embraced innovation, national identity, and artistic freedom.

Basically, it is a central pillar in Brazil's break with its connections with Europe.

brazilian posters be like: "let me post multiple times in this bait thread without even using sage just for the sake of it"
OP might be right or maybe it's just a cultural issue

>>211630123
In fact, only a complete retard cares about Chikaner, if the thread was good for some reason there's no reason not to post it.

>>211630045
>Basically, it is a central pillar in Brazil's break with its connections with Europe.
It's literally inspired by European modernist literature.

>>211630932
It's not just an artistic movement. It's structural, the whole educational base has changed, the whole anthropological and sociological base has changed.
The artistic foundation is just the facade of everything.