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work_3asa5qxlenh3tm63bffpvzd46i	Simon Critchley	Surfaciality: Some Poems by Fernando Pessoa, one by Wallace Stevens, and the Brief Sketch of a Poetic Ontology	2018	21	.pdf	application/pdf	8358	641	76	In this paper, I attempt to give a reading of some poems by the great Portuguese poet, Fernando Pessoa, focusing in particular on the relation between thought and things or mind and world as it is figured in poetry. I would simply like to read a few poems by Pessoa, or rather by the heteronym Alberto Caeiro, who is always referred to as "the master." Caeiro was "Things have no meaning" ("As cousas não têm significação") in the sense Caeiro asks: why would we delude ourselves into thinking that another thing beyond them to their hidden or occult meaning; once again, the word Caeiro As Caeiro says, "To think is not to understand" (Fernando Pessoa & Co 58). I'd like to turn to the final two sections of the poem, where these seemings are called "description without place." What does Stevens mean by description?	./cache/work_3asa5qxlenh3tm63bffpvzd46i.pdf	./txt/work_3asa5qxlenh3tm63bffpvzd46i.txt