Landscape with Two Graves and an Assyrian Dog (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Federico García Lorca
- First Published: 1940
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Dogs, Surrealism, Death or dying, Painting or painters, Blood, Animals, Moon or moons, Tombs or graves
The Poem
As one might imagine from the title, “Landscape with Two Graves and an Assyrian Dog” is an unusual poem. The title suggests a painting of some sort—not an ordinary one, but a Surrealist painting such as Federico García Lorca’s fellow Spaniard Salvador Dalí might create. Such a painting almost always attempts to capture, on canvas, the illogical and imagistic nature of dreams.
García Lorca attempts something similar in his poem. The poem is relatively short, consisting of three stanzas easily contained on one page. It is written in free verse with...
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