Vinicius de Moraes' first book already had in its title the dramatic aspect that permeated his youthful poetry. With a strong interest in the ideas of Catholic intellectuals and metaphysicians from Rio de Janeiro at the time, the poet invests in long verses about the torments of his soul and internal spiritual conflicts that set the tone of the group. Otavio de Faria, América Jacobina Lacombe, Augusto Frederico Schmidt and Lucio Cardoso were some of the names that were part of the life and intellectual orientations of young Vinicius.
With the first poem published in 1932, in the Catholic magazine A Ordem, directed by Alceu Amoroso Lima, the career as a poet of the young law student from Catete was sealed, even if still in a timid way. His almost complete affiliation with Catholic themes makes his debut a still distant outline of what, in the very next book, from 1935, already indicates a poet on the move. His verses gradually move towards broader themes than the Catholic issue. In this book, we also read a poet who looks at the world through faith, without, however, ever losing the troubled point of view of the soul.
