A Meditação Bíblica de Gonçalves Dias

The prose poetry of Gonçalves Dias, Meditação, dramatizes the violent contradictions through the historical course of Portuguese America and independent Brazil, specially the genocide of indigenous peoples and slavery. Incorporates topics of the historicism from Herder and Friedrich von Martius in order to represent these two periods as a slow national decay experience. By this christian hermeneutics, independent Brazil’s decay is foreseen on it’s colonial past. This text discusses the historicism from Gonçalves Dias, the relaxation of the Faustian Myth as unsociable inquirer, the formal incompleteness and the discreet fusion of genres and styles of that work.