Poetry for Students, Volume 31

... It has been stated that Edward Taylor was an inferior poet whose only lasting virtue would probably prove to be occasional f ...

in manuscript? Surely, he could recognize its superiority to any then being written in the col- ony! It may be that the answer c ...

Determinationsreminds us that William Blake was to askhisquestions with even more penetra- tion and amplitude of reference. Tayl ...

Further Reading Bloom, Harold, ed.,John Donne and the Metaphysical Poets, Bloom’s Literary Criticism, 2008. The well-known liter ...

Lament for Ignacio Sa ́nchez Mejı ́as Federico Garcı ́a Lorca’s poem ‘‘Lament for Igna- cio Sa ́nchez Mejı ́as’’ was written and ...

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Federico Garcı ́a Lorca was born on June 5, 1898, in Fuente Vaqueros, Granada, Spain. His mother, Vicenta Lorca ...

stand-alone piece. The poem was first translated into English in 1937 as ‘‘Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter,’’ though it is ...

over a snout of blood spilled on the sand, 70 and the bulls of Guisando, partly death and partly stone, bellowed like two centur ...

Here I want to see those men of hard voice. Those that break horses and dominate rivers; those men of sonorous skeleton who sing ...

The third stanza is composed of twenty lines. Every other line (up until the last four lines) repeats the now-familiar italicize ...

repeats again as the last line of both the stanza and the section, effectively ending section 2 exactly as it began. The Laid O ...

opening line, which declares the time of Ignacio’s death. The time is repeated again in the second line. It is then repeated ano ...

use of past-tense indicates that the speaker does acknowledge the matador’s passing, even as he refuses to do so. Section 3 find ...

this sense, surrealism sought to express a mode of being outside of mundane reality. Ultimately, it came to attempt the establis ...

The Spanish Civil War The second Spanish Republic was formed in April 1931 when King Alfonso XVII left the country on holiday. S ...

universally mourned his loss. In fact, several poets of the day wrote elegies dedicated to the bull- fighter’s death, including ...

speaker’s refusal to look may be an admission of regret in retrospect. Perhaps the speaker did look and now cannot forget the ho ...

uniform in its presentation, changing from bro- ken and frantic stanzas to neat and near-uniform quatrains. This change in form ...

Garcı ́a Lorca was pleased, as he stood in the street one night before a wine-shop in Seville, to hear the words of acoplawhich ...

them) and that second steep reality of the soul in whose service they have proved themselves such extravagant heroes. Little aff ...