Discouragement, disbelief, disenchantment and hopelessness: the poetic profile of Portuguese emigrants in Brazilian lands

Abstract

This article seeks to immerse among the poetic expressions published in the Rio de Janeiro newspaper A Saudade (1855-1857 and 1861-1862) about feeling of discouragement, disbelief, disenchantment and hopelessness in relation to the present and future, investigating ways of construction of a sensitivity and a literary profile, both melancholy. Just as these statements are related to an artistic style typical of this historical context, it is also through them that a particular experience, of the group of Portuguese immigrants in Rio de Janeiro, of remoteness and saudade is significant and appropriate as a way of identification and existential and social comfort. The newspaper functions, in this sense, as a work from which certain, sentimental and artistic, constructions gain visibility. Periodical of the Grêmio Literário Português, this organ is enunciated as a representative of the association and links projects under the sign of literature and instruction, working as a way of construction a sensitive ethos of Portuguese emigrants in the midst of the social clashes of 19th century Brazilian society.