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sofiamsd's review against another edition
emotional
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
4.75
apollonium's review against another edition
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
radkid13's review against another edition
dark
informative
reflective
tense
slow-paced
4.0
This book triggered me! So many of his ideologies are stated as facts instead of opinions and hes so close minded and stubborn! That’s the qualities that are most evident in his poetry, he also lacks so much communication and is willing to break a friendship if they follow poets that give nature meaning and try to add significance to their existence, to Pessoa, nature just is, there is no why. And it’s not that he doesn’t know the why or wouldn’t want to know the why, there just isn’t one! Gosh!!! I appreciated the perspective and how much this has helped me with people that feel like way as well! But I could never agree!!!
wargwe's review against another edition
3.0
“In cities, life is smaller.” Fyuh, this opening line came in useful for a genius loci PPT deck I did for work on Tuesday lol.
Alberto Caeiro is a fictional shepherd created by canonical 19th century Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, complete with birth and death. Pessoa created 136 personas in his lifetime, what he calls ‘heteronyms’: “beings with sort-of-a-life-of-their-own, with feelings I do not have, and opinions I do not accept, while [whose] writings are not mine, they do also happen to be mine”. Early incarnation of the modern day theatre-actor. I discovered him on an INFP forum; his poetry is said to capture nuanced feelings INFPs have about being alone and projections on the natural world (belated paganism alert).
I’m not a big fan of (long form) poetry as a medium, made it through because I saw a few ✨ dazzling stanzas ✨ in ‘The Keeper of Sheep’ early on and hung onto the hope that there’d be more ahead. To be fair this was written during the 19th century, so how much of this work is beauty and truth vs how much is taste.
I like the book cover though LOL.
Alberto Caeiro is a fictional shepherd created by canonical 19th century Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, complete with birth and death. Pessoa created 136 personas in his lifetime, what he calls ‘heteronyms’: “beings with sort-of-a-life-of-their-own, with feelings I do not have, and opinions I do not accept, while [whose] writings are not mine, they do also happen to be mine”. Early incarnation of the modern day theatre-actor. I discovered him on an INFP forum; his poetry is said to capture nuanced feelings INFPs have about being alone and projections on the natural world (belated paganism alert).
I’m not a big fan of (long form) poetry as a medium, made it through because I saw a few ✨ dazzling stanzas ✨ in ‘The Keeper of Sheep’ early on and hung onto the hope that there’d be more ahead. To be fair this was written during the 19th century, so how much of this work is beauty and truth vs how much is taste.
I like the book cover though LOL.
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