Putting Your Heart to Sleep with Pentameters: A Prosodic, Lexical, and Syntactic Analysis of Fernando Pessoa’s Sonnet X

This article analyses Fernando Pessoa’s Sonnet X (“As to a child, I talked my heart asleep”) as a modernist parody of the Shakespearean sonnet. The presence of that highly constrained form is clearly recognizable at the level of both versification and language. At the same time, a number of “marked...

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Autor principal: Portela, Manuel (author)
Formato: article
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2016
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Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/10316/37086
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:estudogeral.sib.uc.pt:10316/37086