Cintra

The poem offers an extended lyrical evocation of a storied mountain-and-sea landscape, whose ruins, cedars, cliffs and mist are rendered in vivid visual and auditory imagery. The speaker moves from panoramic description to intimate longing, imagining becoming moss, autumn or a shadow to dwell in hidden fountains and grottoes. Recurrent motifs of twilight, waves and ruined architecture frame reflections on memory, saudade, poetic vocation and mortality; the voice alternates lament and exaltation and ultimately embraces death as a passage to a transcendent, musical continuity with the landscape.