The King of Harlem (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Federico Garcia Lorca
- First Published: 1940
- Type of Work: Ode
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry, Ode
- Subjects: African Americans, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Racism, Blacks, Twentieth century, New York City, 1930’s, City life, Kings, queens, or royalty, Blood, Cities or towns, Crocodiles
The Poem
In his “Lecture on New York,” Federico García Lorca said that he wanted to write a poem about black people in North America that would emphasize the pain that they experience for being black in a contrary world. García Lorca accomplishes his goal in his long poem entitled “The King of Harlem,” collected in the volume Poet in New York and Other Poems. This long poem (119 lines) is an ode (an elaborate lyric directed to a fixed purpose and theme); its twenty-four stanzas are divided into three sections, and it is written in free verse.
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