OS PRINCÍPIOS EPICURISTAS NA POÉTICA DE ALBERTO CAEIRO, HETERÔNIMO DE FERNANDO PESSOA

Abstract

This monograph aims to demonstrate through Alberto Caeiro's poems, the correlation between his ideas and those of epicurism. For this, four Epicurean principles were chosen, which are happiness, serenity, simplicity and sensations, to be analyzed in four Caeiro poems: IX - I Am a Keeper of Flocks; XXI - If I Could; I - When I Wasn’t With You; XLIX - I Put Myself Inside. The main theoretical bases used were The Complete Works of Alberto Caeiro, by Jerónimo Pizarro and Patricio Ferrari, two exponents of literary criticism about Fernando Pessoa's work; Letter on happiness to Menoeceus by Epicurus, whose founder is the philosopher Epicurus, translated by Lúcio Jakobsmuschel; the article Epicureanism in Alberto Caeiro's poetry, by Leonardo Borges Mendonça, member of the Literature course at the State University of Goiás, with assistance from Prof. Débora Cristina Santos e Silva; and the master's thesis, of the Area of Concentration in Theoretical and Practical Philosophy, Epicurus and Epicureanism: Philosophy as an exercise in well-being, by Rogério Lopes dos Santos.