IES “FRANCISCO ROS GINER”, LORCA.

FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA : LITERARY APPROACH.

Federico García Lorca
 Poetry
F. Garcia Lorca´s
poetry develops from
the simplicity of his
first poems to the
strength of Romancero
Gitano (Gypsy
Balladas), and also to
the ‘avant-gardic’
literary resources in
Poeta en Nueva York.
 By the time he lived
in Madrid at the famous
Residencia de Estudiantes
(1918), he wrote some
poetry books and drama
plays: El maleficio de la
mariposa (1920), Libro de
poemas (1921), Canciones
(1927).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB64AUDntVI

Paco Ibáñez, “El lagarto está llorando” ( Canciones)

 There, he met and became friend of some of the
most important Spanish writers and artists: Rafael Alberti,
Miguel Hernández, Salvador Dalí, Luis Buñuel,… They
were known as the Generación del 27, or the Silver Age
of Spanish culture.
 One of the most important books of this
period is Poema del cante jondo (1926), in which
Lorca mixes different aspects of the popular and
traditional culture, specially from Andalusian
folklore.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmNtS0LFgU0
Marea, “La ciudad de los gitanos” (Romancero gitano)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk15yuMy0EU
Ana Belén, “Herido de amor”, (Romancero gitano)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJG0i_oWjZo
Fito Páez, “Romance de la pena negra” (Romancero gitano)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXLaYVaXW5U
Manzanita, “Romance sonámbulo” (Romancero gitano)

Romancero gitano (Gypsy Ballads)(1928), has

eighteen “romances” (ballads) which are about fatalism,
revenge and feeling. The eighteen ballads are related
with the magic world of gipsies.Once again ,the poet
makes a fusion of popular and worship culture.
 Llanto por la
muerte de Ignacio
Sánchez Mejías (1935).
It is a long poem about
his friend Sánchez
Mejías, who was a
bullfighter and also the
President of a football
team.
 His two latest poetry books were
published after his death at the beginning of the
Spanish Civil War.

1- Diván del Tamarit (1940) shows the special

attraction to the western culture and the Nature.

2- Poeta en Nueva York (1940) was written

during his stay in New York: the poems are
about social criticism in an ‘avant-gardic’ style.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWI9_w6Q3Gw
Morente y Lagartija Nick, “La aurora de Nueva York” ( Poeta en Nueva York)
 Drama Plays
His first great
play is Mariana
Pineda, a story about
happiness, loyalty and
sacrifice. The
character of Mariana
Pineda dies fighting
for freedom. Lorca
also funded a theater
company “La
Barraca”.
After Mariana Pineda,he Yerma (1934), the play tells the
wrote Bodas de sangre story of a childless woman
(put on scene in 1933) a living in rural Spain. Her
tragedy in which love, desperate desire for
hate and death are the motherhood becomes and
main forces . obsession because of the social
norms of her culture.
 La casa de Bernarda Alba (1936), explores the
themes of the autohority against freedom, represion,
passion and also it shows how forces like Love can’t
be hidden.The poet described the play as “the drama
of women in the villages of Spain”
 Knowing Lorca’s poems
(links)

If you are interested

http://www.garcia-lorca.org/Home/Idioma.aspx
in learning more
things about
http://www.los-poetas.com/a/lorca.htm
Federico García
Lorca, you can visit
http://amediavoz.com/garcialorca.htm
these websites on the
internet