The national period from the year 1822 up to present time. Brazilian Poetry reflects political, cultural and economical movements nourished by tradition, religious and language of native Indians, Africa salves and European immigrants. All contributed to a cultural mosaic with Portuguese as the usually used common language.
Brazilian literature counts for half of Latin American books total output.
Soon after discovery, Jesuit priests traveled to Brazil with the mission to catechize natives and built schools for the landowners children. His literary works are many and all religious as the example below. The baroque period has its characteristics in conflicts between divine and profane resulting from the previous renascent period. Renascent period was completely materialistically, while baroque was spiritualist. Baroque poetry in Brazil is in contradiction between beauty and unattractive, good and bad, normal and abnormal, profane and sacred.