Lyrical treatments of passion, love, pride, and death have made a tremendous mark on Federico Garcia Lorca’s literary works. Many of Garcia’s poems evoke traditional Andalusian folklore, gypsy music and surrealist ideas reflecting racial prejudice and economic suffering, which have created intense and dramatic creations during his legacy. While a members of the Generation of 27, Lorca was able to explore the many different literary styles after analyzing many works from Luis de Góngora, Juan Ramón Jiménez and many other writers, from previous generations, which also helped poets like Rafael Albertí, Luis Cernuda, and Jorge Guillén began to produce their own literary styles. Although poets like Jorge Guillén, Luis Cernuda, and Rafael Albertí created famous literary works from different styles and creative identities, Federico Garcia Lorca is considered to be one of the most emblematic poets of the 20th century.
Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca, known more commonly as Federico García Lorca, was born in a small rural village of Fuente Vaqueros in southern Spain just a few miles away from the Andalusian city of Granada in 1898 (Young n.d.). During Lorca’s early childhood years, his mother, Vicenta Lorca Romero, nurtured his strong creative flair and vivid imagination that helped him create …show more content…
After publishing his first work Perfil de aire (1927), Cernuda began to give way to themes of desolation and existence in a surrealist point of view (Schwartz 258). His collection of poetry in Un rio, un amor (1929), explores an unfulfilled yearning of desire that expresses “an illusionary and false reality” (Richter 90). Both Lorca and Cernuda contains themes of death as the solution to an unfulfilled yearning of desire, which can be found in both Lorca’s Poeta en Neuva York (1940) and Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejias (1935) and Cernuda’s La realidad y el deseo
Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca, known more commonly as Federico García Lorca, was born in a small rural village of Fuente Vaqueros in southern Spain just a few miles away from the Andalusian city of Granada in 1898 (Young n.d.). During Lorca’s early childhood years, his mother, Vicenta Lorca Romero, nurtured his strong creative flair and vivid imagination that helped him create …show more content…
After publishing his first work Perfil de aire (1927), Cernuda began to give way to themes of desolation and existence in a surrealist point of view (Schwartz 258). His collection of poetry in Un rio, un amor (1929), explores an unfulfilled yearning of desire that expresses “an illusionary and false reality” (Richter 90). Both Lorca and Cernuda contains themes of death as the solution to an unfulfilled yearning of desire, which can be found in both Lorca’s Poeta en Neuva York (1940) and Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejias (1935) and Cernuda’s La realidad y el deseo