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FEDERICO
GARCIA
LORCA
Jasmine Garcia
Honors English 12
In the Times of Lorca
• Born June 5, 1898
• Fuente Vaqueros, Granada, Spain
• Unique child; real life inspirations; dedicated life to his art
• Sacred Heart University, Law and Philosophy/ University of Madrid/
Colombia University
• Generacion del 27
• First drama, The Butterfly’s Evil Spell(1920)
• First poem collection, Romancero Gitano
• Own theatre company
• Died August 19, 1936; Spanish Civil War(1936-1939) Casualty
• Outlawed writings until 1971
• Martyr, politically oppressed
• Today greatest Spanish poet and dramatist 20 th Century
Selected Major Works
Poetry Collections
Dramas/Plays
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• Amor de Don Perlimplin con Belisa
en su jardin (1931)
• Bodas de sangre ("Blood
Wedding") (1933)
• El malificio de la mariposa (1920)
• La casa de Bernarda Alba ("The
House of Bernarda Alba") (1936)
• La zapatera prodigiosa ("The
Shoemaker's Marvelous Wife")
(1930)
• Mariana Pineda (1927)
• The Comedies (1955)
• Yerma (1934)
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Canciones (1927)
El poema del Cante Jondo (1932)
Impresiones y viajes (1918)
In Search of Duende (1998)
Lament for the Death of a
Bullfighter and Other Poems (1937)
Libro de poemas (1921)
Llanto por Ignacio Sanchez Mejias
(1935)
Poeta en Nueva York ("Poet in New
York") (1940)
Romancero Gitano ("The Gypsy
Ballads") (1928)
Selected Poems (1941)
Ditty of First Desire
In the green morning
I wanted to be a heart.
A heart.
And in the ripe
evening
I wanted to be a
nightingale.
A nightingale.
(Soul,
turn orange-colored.
Soul,
turn the color of love.)
In the vivid morning
I wanted to be myself.
A heart.
And at the evening's
end
I wanted to be my
voice.
A nightingale.
Soul,
turn orange-colored.
Soul,
turn the color of love.
En la mañana verde,
quería ser corazón.
Corazón.
Y en la tarde madura
quería ser ruiseñor.
Ruiseñor.
(Alma,
ponte color de
naranja.
Alma,
ponte color de amor)
En la mañana viva,
yo quería ser yo.
Corazón.
Y en la tarde caída
quería ser mi voz.
Ruiseñor.
¡Alma,
ponte color naranja!
¡Alma,
ponte color de amor!
• Heart- love, strong, life
• Nightingale- animal, bird, free
of barriers
• Connections to the soul
• The heart wants to be heard