Mar Português (also written as Mar Portuguez) is one of the most well-known poems of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa.
Originally published in the Contemporânea magazine in 1922 and later integrated to the book Mensagem (1934), Mar Português is of a notably nationalistic tone, along the rest of Mensagem. The poetry collection is divided between three themes — Brasão, Mar Português and O Encoberto — and concerns itself to the Portuguese explorations of the Age of Discovery by the characters of Vasco da Gama, Ferdinand Magellan and Prince Henry the Navigator.
Analysis The poem is composed by two stanzas of six verses each. The verses are composed in an alternating fashion of ten and eight syllables.
Mar Português was also analyzed from a contemporary perspective relating the poem to the Syrian civil war refugees.
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