While in Brazil, he married Maria Lucia Proença. In 1958, he was transferred to the Brazilian embassy in Montevideo, returning to Brazil in transit. At the end of 1956, Moraes returned to France, having been transferred in 1957 from the Brazilian embassy to the Brazilian representation at UNESCO. The play was staged in 1956 in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, having its text published in a deluxe edition illustrated by Carlos Scliar. Jobim wrote 'Se todos fossem iguais a você' ('If Others Were Like You'), 'Um nome de mulher' ('A Woman's Name'), and other songs included in the production. He met pianist Tom Jobim, who was commissioned to write music for the play. He became a well-known playwright with the staging of his musical Orfeu da Conceição ('Orpheus of the Conception') in 1956 and for the film made of it called Black Orpheus. During the next year, he wrote lyrics to chamber music pieces by Claudio Santoro. He released his first samba, 'Quando tu passas por mim' ('When You Pass By') which was composed with Antonio Maria. He went to Paris as second secretary at the Brazilian embassy in France. A fourth child by his second wife was born in 1956. In 1953, his third child, Georgiana, was born. The basic meter in Moraes's love poetry is the decasyllable, taken mostly from Camões' lyric poetry. However, if in Cabral's works technique served the depiction of objective reality, in Moraes's work technique served the depiction of the subjective mood of sexual love. He is usually equated with his friend João Cabral de Melo Neto for the high technical skill of their poetry. He was considered one of the most prominent of the 'Generation of '45', a group of Brazilian writers in the 1930s and 1940s who rejected early modernism in favor of traditional forms and vocabulary. He abandoned his use of blank verse and free verse in favor of the sonnet, both the Italian form used in Portuguese poetry (two quatrains, two tercets) and the English form (three quatrains and a couplet). Two years later he won a British Council fellowship to study English language and literature at Oxford University. In 1936, Moraes became film censor for the Ministry of Education and Health.
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