ABSTRACT
A comparative study of the rich modernist movements in Portugal and Brazil during the twentieth century, which were marked by the same influences, demands the special attention that must be given to an ideological field characterized by the dialectics of the colonizer. The period of modernist militancy is thought to have ended in 1927 with the appearance of the magazine Presenca and, in the Brazilian case, with the publication of Drummond's volume Alguma Poesia. In addition, the unique characteristics of the Portuguese and Brazilian national contexts as regards their distinct social, historical and cultural situations must not be underrated, since they aid understanding of the motives behind them. The youngest of the Portuguese modernists, Antonio Ferro, was born in 1895, while Drummond, one of the youngest Brazilian modernists, was born in 1902. Despite the restrictions and the limits that post-modernists accused modernists of the two modernisms dedicated themselves religiously to a high-level cultural mission that was simultaneously aesthetic and ethical.
