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Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias - College Papers

Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias

Nancy Tyler
Lit 202, Professor Sisk
June 14, 2013

Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias

Federico Garica Lorca's poem, "Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias", is a beautifully and powerfully written eulogy to his friend, a famous Spanish bullfighter, who dies before his time. Ignacio Sanchez Mejias fought a bull the day he died even though he was not scheduled to do so but was pressured to comply at the crowd's insistence. Perhaps, Lorca is criticizing the people of Andalusia for the death of his friend. He once criticized his country's hunger for blood when he famously declared in a lecture, "Spain is the only country where death is a national spectacle."

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or royal in the bigger of city Seville. He points out you cannot compare his sword, his heart, his strength or his composure to any other man. Lorca compliments his great smile, full of white teeth, to flowers, and claims he possesses a great wit and intelligence. The images he uses are not for any old bullfighter. There is not doubt Lorca believes he is the greatest bullfighter of all. A bullfighter is supposed to domesticate a bull. He is supposed to bring a bull to his knees and to prove to him he has more power, strength, and intelligence. The relationship between a torero and a bull is a dance of death. Lorca says in this poem that Sanchez Mejias not only fought the bull, but he also fought death:

Ignacio goes up the tiers
with all his death on his shoulders.
he sought for the dawn
But the dawn was no more....
he sought for his beautiful body
and encountered his opened blood.

By describing Ignacio as a seeker, as facing the dawn, facing "the dream" that ...

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Added: 6/20/2013 09:34:47 PM
Submitted By: ntyler1
Category: Poetry & Poets
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 656
Pages: 3

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