Heteronym Essays

  • Three is Better Than One: An Analysis of Fernando Pessoa and His Heteronyms

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    was known to write poems as different personas, which made each of his works very different from each other. Pessoa had a total of 72 different heteronyms, which “were individuals with their own history, biography, personal characteristics and unmistakable literary style” (5).These heteronyms included himself, because even his own person was a heteronym on its own” (3). Some of his most famous alter egos were Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, and Alvaro de Campos. Each were influenced by some of his