As the title suggests, this article deals with the eroticism in Florbela Espanca poetics. The florbelian virgin shelters in her bosom the paradox of good and evil relative to the feminine mystique. That is her way of declaring that the demoniac portion of the feminine, that strange body with its nocturnal values, that black continent, representation of the sexed being, carrier of sin and seduction, of disorder and of the unbridled - cannot be freed even of the most celestial image it erects for herself.
Florbela Espanca; Poetry; Literary Criticism