Federico García Lorca: the spitting image of Spanish poetry

Federico García Lorca: the spitting image of Spanish poetry.

Federico García Lorca: the spitting image of Spanish poetry.

Although much of his life has already been written, the truth is that talking about Federico García Lorca will never be enough. His literary work screams, his sonnets shudder, speaks of the Spanish poetic identity and of a masterful mastery of the letters, as if it were an old soul who writes, of someone who came with a past knowledge to go beyond current poetry and to rethink the one that preceded it.

This man from Granada, born in 1898, came to see a century die and to be a crucial part of the literary birth of the next century. His formal poetic flowering occurred in 1921, when he was only 23 years old. At that time he published his Poetry book (1921) and Cante jondo poem (1921), works that immediately gave him a place among the poets of the time and assured him a place in the important Generation of '27.

Lorca and the Student Residence

There are events, places and people that change a life, certainly, and If there is something that helped to forge and consolidate the talent of Federico García Lorca, that was his time at the Residencia de Estudiantes.

The young writer did not arrive there by chance, his entrance to the site was the product of the timely interception of the politician Fernando de los Ríos before the poet's parents, who were opposed to his leaving. The Spanish socialist leader spoke and managed to convince Lorca's relatives to enter.

While in the Student Residence, Lorca rubbed shoulders with figures of the stature of Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel, intellectuals of great weight at the time with whom he strengthened ties of friendship. These characters, together with Rafael Alberti and Adolfo Salazar, gave strength to Lorca's poetic personality after each enriching gathering.

Lorca, the Generation of '27, the trips and his execution

It is as a result of the meeting of poets that took place 300 years after the death of Luis de Góngora (1927) when the so-called Generation of 27 was born. In that year and the next they came to light Songs (1927) and First gypsy romance (1928) two of the most iconic works of the young man from Granada.

It was at that time when Federico García Lorca went through one of his strongest crises, This was due to the criticism of the publications, especially that of the romanceo, as they linked it directly with support for the gypsies and for promoting and defending costumbrismo.

After what happened with the poems, Lorca decided to change a bit of scene and scene and went on a trip to New York. Being in American lands he was inspired and his book was born Poet in New York which came to light four years after his execution.

Phrase by Federico García Lorca.

Phrase by Federico García Lorca.

It was in 1936, on August 16, after a series of events typical of the July 19 coup, that García Lorca was intercepted by the Civil Guard. He, at that time, was at the home of Luis Rosales, a dear friend who had given him shelter. Not two days passed when the order was given to shoot the young poet, and so it was.

There are many opinions that revolve around his death, but the most popular one points out that it was perhaps because of his declared homosexuality. The truth is Federico García Lorca's entire work and life marked a milestone in world literature, his verses are the spitting image of Spanish poetry.


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