Gypsy ballads of LORCA: analysis of the most important POEMS

It is clear that Federico Garcia Lorca He is one of the most renowned authors in Spanish literature. His work has been studied and analyzed for many years in the educational and academic fields. And it is that his trajectory is representative of what is known as Generation of 27, among which we also find Rafael Alberti or Miguel Hernández.

However, we highlight among all his works the one titled as Gypsy romance. This work is so important that, in a Professor, we have decided to carry out a brief analysis of the most important poems of the Gypsy romance by Federico García Lorca. Go for it!

Index

1. Introduction to the Gypsy Ballads by Federico García Lorca
2. Death of Antoñito el Camborio
3. Romance of black sorrow
4. Sleepwalking romance
5. Conclusions of the poems of Gypsy Ballads

In the work Gypsy romance, García Lorca uses a predominantly metaphorical language, loaded with symbolic portraits, where the main theme revolves around Andalusian and gypsy traditions. In general, the

• Romances from 1 to 15: In these first poems, a direct allusion is made to the gypsies and deals with subjects such as death and, above all, women. In addition, we find poems directly addressed to Granada, Seville and Córdoba.
• Romances from 16 to 18: Here García Lorca prefers to mention a series of historical figures. With this, the main theme of the work is distorted and distances itself from what was previously discussed with these last three poems.

In this poem García Lorca dedicates his words to an old roommate called José Antonio Rubio Sacristán and, as his name suggests, focuses on the main theme of death through murder. The fights between gypsies are created in the Lorca language of this poem through metaphorical and symbolic images, where, in addition, the main character of the work, Camborio, is presented as the archetypal model of the gypsy for the author.

Continuing with the language used and the resources, as a good romance, we must highlight the fact that this poem is composed mainly by eight syllable verses of assonance rhyme in the even verses and free in the odd ones. Finally, the poem presents three main parts:

• 1. Where the murder of Camborio is described (Verses 1 to 18).
• 2. Where the character asks the author himself for help and they have a conversation (Verses 19 to 40).
• 3. The death of the character and the arrival of his cousins ​​to Benarmejí (Verses 41 to 52).

Perhaps this is the most important poem of Gypsy romance. We also find a meter and rhyme similar to that found in the previous poem (especially with the vowels "o" and "a"). Also, a large number of sinalefasand overruns, in addition to rhetorical figures Among which we highlight metaphors, symbols, anaphoras and prosopopoeias among others.

This poem is dedicated to a friend by the author himself named José Navarro Pardo. Being the culmination of the work even for the author himself, Romance of black sorrow deals with the themes of the search for happiness by Soledad Montoya, which is represented by the "black penalty."

It is because of that loneliness acts as a simile of Andalusian grief, frequent theme in the author's career. Finally, regarding its structure, we can divide the poem into three parts main:

• 1. Description of the protagonist and the context (Verses 1 to 8).
• 2. Soledad starts a conversation with another character (Verses 9 to 38).
• 3. Landscape portrait and allusion to the black penalty (Verses 39 to 46).

This poem by Federico García Lorca is more focused on the figure of the woman, as seen in the Romance of black sorrow.

Is dedicated to Gloria Giner and Fernando de los Ríos, friends of the author. “Green I want you green”, Is the most representative verse of this work, being, in addition, this color a frequent resource in the present poem. It is here, with all that said, that the story of a smuggler wounded who finds refuge in the house of a gypsy in flight from her, who has died and starts a conversation with her father.

In the same way as seen in the previous poems, this one is composed of eight-syllable verses of assonance rhyme in the even verses, the odd ones appearing freely. In general, this poem is divided into five parts main:

1. The gypsy woman waits for her lover (Verses 1 to 24).
2. The wounded outlaw asks the gypsy's father for help and shelter (Verses 25 to 52).
3. Both men climb onto the railings (Verses 53 to 66).
4. The protagonist asks about his beloved and the father answers that he was waiting for him for a long time (Verses 67 to 72).
5. The smuggler discovers that the gypsy girl has died while the civil guard is waiting for him (Verses 73 to 86).

This work by Federico García Lorca is one of the more important of Spanish literature. It is very difficult to make a selection of the most important poems that are collected in this one and, above all, to carry out a very synthesized analysis.

But, with what is shown in this article, we have been able to understand the nature of the work, its language and the most important topics that are dealt with in it.

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