The most popular ballad graphically describes a normal sexual experience, but others concern incest, homosexuality, and the sexual awakening in a nun. In form the Gypsy Ballads comprises traditional ballads, characterized by the swinging rhythms associated with this form. Lorca develops many of them in a dramatic context, with an interplay of character and situation, at times even including himself. Above all, Lorca reveals in this book his extraordinary talent for creating striking and memorable metaphors.
Although only a few literary men understood the poet's artistic intent, great numbers of people read the book and memorized the most striking stanzas. This book in fact made Lorca something of a celebrity as well as a recognized poet. In Lorca, still suffering from serious emotional problems, arrived in New York and settled in a dormitory at Columbia University. During his year in New York and nearby Vermont, Lorca wrote the powerful Poeta en Nueva York Poet in New York , a book of poems so revolutionary he did not dare to publish it during his lifetime.
Poet in New York has a double theme: the poet's personal struggles with himself and his general struggle with the great city and its masses. On the streets of New York and in rural Vermont, the poet battles with his homosexuality, lonliness, and suicidal tendencies, finally recovering his equilibrium. He depicts the depersonalizing effects of mass living in the city. His resolution of the two themes is contained in two odes.
His "Ode to Rome" challenges the Christian Church to reform itself and reach out to the masses; his "Ode to Walt Whitman" is the poet's ringing demand for absolute personal freedom. During the s Lorca dedicated himself to poetry, but in the s he devoted his energies to the drama. Soon after he returned to Spain in , the Second Republic was created, ushering in a period of intense cultural activity. Lorca himself became one of the directors of La Barraca, a traveling theatrical group responsible for presenting plays usually of earlier periods in the provincial towns.
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View all landmark worksheets. View all US state worksheets. View all country worksheets. View all Seasonal worksheets. View all mammal worksheets. View all marine life worksheets. The next year, he published Libro de poemas , a compilation of poems based on Spanish folklore. In , his poetry collection Romancero Gitano brought Lorca far-reaching fame; it was reprinted seven times during his lifetime.
He returned to Spain in and, beginning in , toured the country with the theater group La Barraca. He is believed to have been murdered by Fascist forces on August 18 or 19, National Poetry Month. Materials for Teachers Teach This Poem.
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