Lorca, Alberti: Love, Death, and Social Themes in Poetry

Love, Death, and Social Themes in Poetry

Death. Failure can lead to love-death, whose presence is a mystery. Man goes to it, inevitably fulfilling their destiny.

The Children

This stage of life is the age of innocence.

The Social

It manifests in two ways: first, moral impositions, which thwart created lives; and secondly, a reality that always punishes the helpless. The style has a role reminiscent of the words, the presence of symbols, the visionary image, the impressionist trend, and the importance of musicality. In some poems, it takes resources metric forms of folk poetry; others, such as the classical forms, incline for sonnets or free verse.

Poetic Trajectory

In 1921, he published an anthology of his poems, poetry, influenced by modernism and romanticism. The following books show the coexistence of traditional elements, cults, and popular with other cutting-edge songs: 1927, Gypsy Ballads 1928, and Poem Cantejondo 1931. Poet in New York presented formal changes in the treatment of the topics. In these poems, avant-garde aesthetic prevails. In his last works, predominantly lyrical tone and themes of love and death: Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Megie, Six Poems Tamarit Galegos, and Couch.

Gipsy Ballads

This work reflects an Andalusia focused on Gypsies. The relationship between major themes in Gypsy Ballads, love and death, is tinged with a tragic sense. In the poems are set oppositions between the gypsy and the civil guard, and between the full and tragic love erotica, which leads to death. The texts incorporate elements of narrative, dramatic, making prevail indeterminacy, vagueness, which gives the compositions a certain secretiveness.

Poet in New York

The American city, with its technological development and dehumanization, is the theme. That reality produces a hostile climate of fear. Loneliness and pain are constant in the world of civilization. Near the city is the pain of the poetic voice, her desire for love, her loneliness. This harrowing experience was manifested in a style different from previous books, with greater presence and lyrical and what grounds and procedures close to surrealism. The visionary, the irrational nature of metaphors and symbols. The heavy load of emotion is expressed by means of free verse.

Rafael Alberti

Themes and Style

In his work, there are some recurring themes and motifs:

  • The nostalgia for paradise lost
  • The anguish caused by these losses
  • The disregard for the social

There are certain constants in poetry: visual imagery and musicality. The metric ranges from popular verse forms.

Marinero en Tierra

In contrast, it appears the city, representing the exile in a world of indifference. The pace is achieved through resources and forms of traditional poetry.

About the Angels

In this text, reflect the deep personal crisis, the poetic is unfolded, the dark forces that inhabit it, good and bad angels, determine their fate, and sinks into the mystery, solitude, and pain. The poems are a marked crossing x the loss of paradise. This is a difficult task, close to the closed, which contribute dream images, influenced by surrealism. The oppositions are marked throughout the play, in a constant dichotomy between positive and negative, harmony and disharmony.