Gacela of the Dark Death (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Federico Garcia Lorca
- First Published: 1940
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Nature, Dreams, Death or dying, Life and death, Time, Mortality, Sleep
The Poem
“Gacela of the Dark Death” is a short lyric poem in free verse. The poem is composed of twenty-four lines divided into five stanzas. The title, “Gacela of the Dark Death,” identifies the poem as a gacela, a form perfected by the fourteenth century Persian poet Hafiz. Gacelas are typically short, usually rhymed, verses that often mix religious mysticism, eroticism, and daily experience. In Federico García Lorca’s gacelas, images drawn from his surrealistic and folk-inspired imagination figure prominently. Moreover, “Gacela of the Dark...
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