This paper highlights some aspects of the conception of poetry in Schopenhauer in order to discuss possible similarities and differences between the poetry of Augusto dos Anjos and the characteristics and roles that Schopenhauer attaches to the art of poetry and to the poet. The possibles convergences and divergences between the german philosopher and the “accursed poet” are addressed by means of a analysis of Schopenhauer's concept of exposure (Darstellung) and not by means of the worldviews in general of the philosopher and of the poet, that only may be taken as similar or divergent in conjectural sense