英文摘要 |
After the publication of his most renowned collection of poetry, Gypsy Ballads (Romancero gitano) in 1928, Federico Garcia Lorca (1898~1936) has been identified among Spanish poets as 'the gypsy poet' (el poeta gitano). Though the poet did not like this label, inevitably in his poetry the presence of the gypsy remains obvious. This paper tries to describe and define the gypsy in Lorca's poetry, by looking into the following aspects: (1) the innovation of contents and forms in Gypsy Ballads and Poem of the Deep Song (Poema del cante jondo); (2) the symbolism of the gypsy characters in Lorca's poems; and (3) Lorca's mythical gypsy and his theory of the duende (teoria del duende) about the deep song. The paper concludes that Lorca successfully created a style with the merging of traditional literary forms and gypsy contents, in which the gypsy world is depicted in two levels: one of the gypsy people and the other of the gypsy supernatural. By writing about the gypsy, Lorca showed his compassion for the defenseless and his sympathy with the gypsy spirit of living the present passionately in the face of the death. |