Author: Fernando Pessoa
Pretended master of the other heteronyms and of the ortonym poet, Caeiro seeks to appear to us as a man of naive, instinctive vision, gladly surrendered to the infinite variety of the spectacle of sensations, mainly visual, hypothetically enjoyable by a reinvented classic rural man. In theory, Caeiro argues that reality is exteriority itself, which does not require subjectivism. He proclaims himself an anti-metaphysician, he is against the interpretation of reality by intelligence because, in his understanding, this interpretation reduces things to simple concepts. Caeiro is easily recognizable by a certain visualist objectivism reminiscent of Cesário Verde, by his interest in Nature, and by his slow rhythm.
Alberto Caeiro is the crucial figure of the great poetic renewal that Fernando Pessoa idealized for Portuguese literature and of which the magazine "Orpheu" was the initial moment in 1915. The extreme originality of his artistic creation and the fruitful consequences that Reis Campos and Pessoa himself soon echoed would have, in the long term, notorious effects on the aesthetic sensibility of the century.
