NOTAS: Poderão
ler aqui
uma página interessante sobre Fernão de Magalhães
e sobre a viagem que o tornou o navegador supremo.
English
version
An introduction
to the poem: This
poem is dedicated to Magellan and again focuses on the time of his
death. A group of savages, compared to the Titans, dance by the
fire on the death of the navigator. He wanted to encompass the whole
Earth and tear away its last grand veil. And although he could not
complete the quest, his determination outlived him and directed
the fleet to the place where the distance finally ended, and that
was the point where the voyage had begun...
Magellan
In
the valley a fire grows brighter.
A dance shakes the whole earth.
And shadows, enormous and disordered,
In black flashes go, suddenly, from the valley
And up the slopes,
Blending into the dark.
Whose is the dance that terrifies the night?
It is the Titans', the sons of the Earth,
Who
dance at the death of the sailor
Who wanted to encircle mother earth-
To gird it, of all men the first -,
On the strand, far off, buried at last.
They dance, not knowing that the daring soul
Of the dead man still commands the fleet,
Strength without body at the helm, steering
The galleons through the rest of the ends of space:
For even though departed he was able to encompass
The whole Earth with his embrace.
He transgressed Earth. But
they
Know it not, and dance in isolation;
And shadows, enormous and disordered,
Blending into horizons,
Mount
from the valley up the slopes
Of the mute hills.
|