THIS PAPER is an attempt at analysing a poem by Manuel Bandeira, called Lua Nova, composed in 1953 in Rio de Janeiro. Reading the verses in the light of some Dilthey's reflections, I look for the expression of the poet's experiences, then trying to understand, through Lua Nova, his constant refusal of all excess and his serene acceptance of life's rhythm, which contains as an inevitable and deeply significant end death itself.
