A resiliência do homem-português ao desbravar o mar na poesia de Camões e Pessoa

Abstract

The present work deals with a qualitative and exploratory bibliographical research of the history of Portugal and its people in relation to the sea, as well as geographical limit that helped to determine characteristics very specific to this coastal nation, as well as briefly going through studies of in the understanding of the sea as an integral part of the collective identity in the Portuguese people, in the face of the experience of this people with maritime navigations as a means by which Portugal reached its apogee, becoming a vast empire between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. Through this research, we seek to understand how the resilient characteristic of the Portuguese people in entering the sea in their maritime conquests and this relationship between the portuguese man and the sea are evidenced in Os Lusíadas, literary work of Luis Vaz de Camões and in the poem Portuguese Sea of Fernando Pessoa, realizing that after the literary works of these illustrious Portuguese poets – Camões and Pessoa – that even in the face of the real and imaginary dangers that the sea posed to the medieval portuguese man, this did not stagnate before the objective of , even in the face of the unknown sea, build the Portuguese Empire through the incognito seas never before navigated.