ABSTRACT

Luís Carneiro, Sapado, Grande and Cima, close to Brava).

It is a country where biological miscegenation, the healthy getting together of people and the merging of values and cultural elements turned the archipelago into a Luso-tropical utopia. Therefore, it would become an exemplary prototype in which the revival of insularity prevailed. Thus the «claridosos», in their identity search, namely Jorge Barbosa, felt close to Atlantis. Not only did they reconsider the designation given to the legendary submerged continent, but Jorge Barbosa also opened the book of poems Arquipélago (1935), connecting it to Atlantis, with the poem «Panorama» (Panorama), as we will see further ahead.