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Meditação (prose)
Meditação is a discontinued series of prose poems written by Brazilian poet Gonçalves Dias. Written , it was published serially in the magazine Guanabara, who was founded by him, alongside other Brazilian writers, Joaquim Manuel de Macedo and Manuel de Araújo Porto-Alegre.
The work criticizes the situation of Brazil during the 19th century, under the form of a dialogue between an old man and a young man, who represent, respectively, the critic and the exaltation.