Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Federico Garcia Lorca
- First Published: 1935
- Type of Work: Elegy
- Genres: Poetry, Elegy
- Subjects: Europe or Europeans, 1930’s, Death or dying, Athletes, Blood, Sports, Animals, Spain or Spanish people, Joy or sorrow, Bullfighting or bullfighters
The Poem
Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías is a long elegy divided into four parts corresponding to four dramatic movements. It was written to commemorate and celebrate the death of a man who many considered the bravest and most gallant matador of Spain. Ignacio Sánchez Mejías was also Federico García Lorca’s great friend. In this poem, there is complete identification between poet and speaker.
The first part of the poem, “The Goring and the Death,” starts at the very hour of the tragedy—“at five in the afternoon”—and proceeds to dwell on all...
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