Note 695 — VI 1816-1910 (continued 2)

e.g. Tive castellos, fortalezas pelo mundo.... Não tenho casa, não tenho pão. The cadence here, as in many of Snr. Guerra Junqueiro’s lines, is singularly arresting. The tendency to morbid repetition is exaggerated in Patria and has influenced many younger poets, as Snr. Corrêa de Oliveira and, especially, Antonio Nobre. The reader is credited with no imagination and the effect is diminished. For instance, in Patria: deixa-me dormir, Dormir em paz ... dormir! That is excellent; but the word dormir is then again thrice repeated, until the reader sleeps.