ABSTRACT
Having in mind H. Helder’s poetry of the sixties and seventies of the 20th, and his praising of Hofmannsthal’s Ein Brief (1902) and Pessoa’s poetry and poetology corresponding to the Orpheu phase, this chapter reflects on modernity roots using the poetic creation and the poetologic thesis on modern literature shown in the poetry of H. Helder’s and his declared mentor: E. Bettencourt’s; finally, it launches a bridge on the field of Rothko’s and Blauer Reiter’s modern painting aesthetics in order to better understand the essence of the poiesis of emotions in modern art so that one might draw the respective approach and similarities between creators of different origins and epochs of the 20th century.
