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The Life and Works of Federico Garcia Lorca
“The Uruguayan poetess Juana de Ibarbourou, who met Lorca during his visit to Montevideo in 1933, wrote that Federico’s large eyes were ‘oddly melancholy despite the euphoria of his personality’” (Gibson xxi). Federico Garcia Lorca was born on the fifth of June in 1898 in Granada, Spain. Granada was the place where Francisco Garcia Lorca grew up. Born to a teacher for a mother and a shareholder of a sugar factory for a father, Garcia Lorca was raised quite normally in a middle class family. ... When Garcia Lorca went to the College of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Garcia Lorca did not at first pay attention in class and wrote many poems about how distressed he was to be there. ... In 1919, Garcia Lorca studied law at the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid after haven recited poetry in local cafes. It was here that Garcia Lorca met and became friends with film director Luis Bunuel and painter Salvador Dali, among other Spanish notables of his generation. Federico Garcia Lorca’s background, childhood, and the fact that he was a homosexual were all influences in his works and the style in which he wrote.
One great influence in Garcia Lorca’s poetic life was his trip to New York, which was where he wrote a collection of works in a book called Poet in New York. Garcia Lorca, however, never wrote the poem about a Hungarian boy who he met on board of the huge liner he was on when he was traveling to New York. ... Also about a month after Garcia Lorca had arrived in New York, he wrote a poem called “The King of Harlem”, in which he attacks the society that oppresses blacks. The speaker in Garcia Lorca’s “The King of Harlem” describes this,
Oh Harlem!
Approximate Word count = 1522
Approximate Pages = 6.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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