Pessoa was also a proponent of “automatic writing”, an exercise that he believed could make him tap into his unconscious and achieve spiritual transcendence.
Influenced by T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and Andre Breton, Pessoa adopted many of the emerging modernist techniques of his day while also including the intricate aesthetics of Baudelaire’s symbolist verse. Pessoa was also a proponent of “automatic writing”, an exercise that he believed could make him tap into his unconscious and achieve spiritual transcendence.