Guitar
Guitar - context Summary
From Poet in New York
Placed in the collection Poet in New York, Lorca’s "Guitar" uses the instrument as a mournful emblem. The poem stages a relentless, impersonal weeping that resists silencing and links sound to landscape, longing, and death. Brief, repetitive lines build a ritualized lament that moves from abstract crying to specific images—distant sands, a dead bird—closing on the guitar as a heart "mortally wounded."
Read Complete AnalysesThe weeping of the guitar begins. The goblets of dawn are smashed. The weeping of the guitar begins. Useless to silence it. Impossible to silence it. It weeps monotonously as water weeps as the wind weeps over snowfields. impossible to silence it. It weeps for distant things. Hot southern sands yearning for white camellias. Weeps arrow without target evening without morning and the first dead bird on the branch. Oh, guitar! Heart mortally wounded by five swords.
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