A Spanish Poet, Playwright, artistic director, was born 5 June 1898, Fuente Vaqueros, Spain and went on to become a part of a group of poets called, “Generation 27,” who reinvented Spanish Prose; arose in Spanish literary circles between 1923 and 1927. They helped introduce European concepts like futurism, surrealism and symbolism into the Spanish literary canon!
The circle of poets consisted of Jorge Guillén, Pedro Salinas, Rafael Alberti, Federico García Lorca, Dámaso Alonso, Gerardo Diego, Luis Cernuda, Vicente Aleixandre, Manuel Altolaguirre and Emilio Prados.
They were all born in or after the terrible losses of 1898 when the Spanish Empire collapsed and lost Cuba, Philippines and all round was a devastating time for the country.
The group didn’t fall on the past, they wanted to look to the future, what was happening now in the 1920s which the preceding generation didn’t they were all about 1898. Federico came of age with his generation with the Spanish Republic, 1931, incredibly progressive era. They mirrored the country’s extraordinary growth, rejuvenation, renewed hope and optimism in Spain!
“Gypsy ballads and lament for a bullfighter,” are Federico’s best known collection of poems. Second Golden age of Spanish Theatre!
Personality wise, Federico was mercurial and effervescent, he antagonized people getting a lot of dislike from many however he had many followers and loved ones too. His goal was to get social justice!
His life was cut short when he was assassinated on August 18, 1936, only 38 years old by the supporters of General Francisco Franco during the first months of the Spanish Civil War, his body was never found. It was a cruel tragedy and such talent wasted all because his thoughts, feelings, and opinions caught the wrong people’s attention! He was executed, along with a teacher and two anarchist bullfighters who had fought in the city’s defense against Francisco Franco‘s rebellion. His killers who’s leader had been after Federico to murder him, simply thought he was homosexual!
Franco who live another 39 years, after which Spain would slowly emerge from his repressive shadow to become one of the most liberal nations in Europe. During the nearly three-quarters of a century since his death, García Lorca has entered the canon of world poetry, an eternal rebuke to the enemies of liberty who killed him and to all their kind.
http://blogs.britannica.com/2009/08/the-death-and-strange-afterlife-of-federico-garcia-lorca/
It is not fair for one’s life to be taken from them, especially at such a young, fine age where one is still moving up into the world. Federico was and still is through his work an inspiring playwright and proceeds to leave his mark on the world with his beliefs and poems. He was trying to shape the world in his image, a better one where all can come together and move into a peaceful future. Sadly even to this day humanity isn’t together as one, improvements have been made, but as a race we have a very long way to go. little by little.
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