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Although Vinicius had established his public figure through poetry and popular song, he was one of the greatest prose writers of his generation. As a matter of fact, a generation where the good prose of that time was crystallized through a chronic genre extremely characterized by the style of Rio de Janeiro city.
With a large number of newspapers that circulated in the city and with a team of writers which would vary from Rubem Braga to Carlinhos de Oliveira, from Carlos Drummond de Andrade to Clarice Lispector, from Fernando Sabino to Nelson Rodrigues, Vinicius sit among them as a chronicler who transmitted to the prose, the same reasons and the same lightness of style that he presented to the public in his poems.
A estrelinha polar
Vinicius de Moraes
Poesia
A ESTRELINHA POLA
De repente o mar fosforesceu, o navio ficou silente
O firmamento lactesceu todo em poluções vibrantes de astros
E a Estrelinha Polar fez um pipi de prata no atlântico penico.
Oceano Atlântico, a bordo do Highland Patriot, a caminho da Inglaterra, setembro de 1938
