Brazil.

Two facts about Brazil that I find very important to keep in mind before anything

 To think about Brazilian culture is to reflect how Portugal, over the course of several
centuries, sought to instill in its colonies all over the world a European, monarchical,
capitalist culture based on its own desires
  economic exploitation of the territory was based first on brazilwood (pau brazil) extraction
(16th century), which gave the territory its name;[3] sugar production (16th–18th centuries);
and finally on gold and diamond mining (18th century)
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US: the goals of colonization: mercantilism and
 Slave society:  Essentially,
it means any society where labor is defined by
slavery, the whole social structure of those societies was rooted in
slavery
 Unlike neighboring Spanish America, Brazil was a slave society from its outset. The
African slave trade was inherent to the economic and social structure of the colony. Years
before the North American slave trade got underway, more slaves had been brought to
Brazil than would ever reach British North America.[38] It can be estimated that around
35% of all Africans captured in the Atlantic slave trade were sent to Brazil

Of the white woman, it was said, during her life- time she left her home on only three occasions:
to be baptized, to be married, and to be buried. The role of the white woman was seen as
essentially passive, victim of the demands of an over-bearing and frequently unfaithful older
husband to whom she would bear children. As for the Amerindian woman, whose beauty led
the discoverers to initial rap tures of platonic appreciation and then sexual overindulgence, she
has rarely been depicted in any role other than that of concubine or lover. The black and
mulatto woman, slave or free, became a symbol of sensual arousal and sexual fulfillment. Her
power over the white male settler was lauded in popular mythology, verse, and prose. Her
domestic duties were irrevocably tied to her sexual role as the plaything of adolescent sons, the
butt for the cruelty and sadism of jealous white wives, or the object of the affections of the
master of the house

Del Priore categorized love in Brazilian colonial society into two archetypes: love within

marriage, chaste and continent; and love outside marriage, characterized by passion, lust and the

sins of the flesh. The author’s research shows that in Portuguese America the superiority of

reason in marriage over the heart is a constant. The wife should love her partner “as good,

virtuous and well-done women of quality do.” This reinforces, among the wives, a Portuguese
tradition that interpreted marriage as a task to be endured: “getting married sounds good and

tastes bad”; “House of lovebirds, house of falls”, warned the popular sayings.1

Neoclassicism was a Western cultural movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature,

theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical

antiquity.

Inutilia Truncat: This precept dialogues with the need to “remove the useless” from
poetry, this useless being understood as being the excess of formal refinement of the
Baroque movement.

Fugere Urbem: For the lyricists of Arcadism, the city was not the ideal environment to
live, preaching, therefore, the escape from urbanity as a goal to be achieved.

Locus Amoenus: Linked to the fugere urbem, this precept states that the countryside, the
bucolic environment, is ideal for man.

Carpe Diem: According to this precept, it is necessary to take advantage of the present to
contemplate reality, without worrying about the future.

Aurea Mediocritas: According to this expression, the average man is one who achieves
happiness, so one should not seek wealth and possessions in life.

7 -It's my sad life

Always grieve, and suffer;
I'm dying all the time
Without ending up dying.

You know, my dear, what I suffer

When I can't see you
Is to die of nostalgia
Without ending up dying.

You promised me, sweetness,

He was content to promise;
And make me live dying

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Del Priore, História do amor, 19.
Without ending up dying.

Flattering hopes
My death comes to be troubled;
They support me in life
Without ending up dying.

Take a sad example of me

Whoever wants to live loving;
Will Know what it's like to live dying
Without ending up dying.

When I put my hand on my chest

I feel a faint beat;
It's the heart that expires
Without ending up dying.

12- I do not say the name of my beloved, who has nothing to know. With so much grace
there is no one. Love in the strands of the blonde braid.
The light of the eyes Never eclipses, There it ignites Your fire Love. It is not so beautiful
The light of the Sun. The color of the face Beautiful, beautiful, It is the color of the roses
With the jasmines. Guard in the mouth The most graceful Precious pearls Among rubins.
What a rich voice It forms there! It is rich safe Snowy bosom, Of the most perfect Most
pure Love.Guard'a my soul That I went there to put.