This essay evaluates the desecrating use of the Baudelairean heritage by the Portuguese poet Adília Lopes. It focuses on the procedures of irony, figuration, fragmentation, and transitivity with which lyrical subjectivity is represented by both poets, and associates them with an improper way of relating to modernity and the contemporary, which are viewed as paradoxical experiences of the end and a new beginning.
Modernity; Contemporaneity; Profanation; Subjectivity; Historicity