Serenata
Serenata - fact Summary
From Poeta En Nueva York
This short poem by Federico García Lorca appears in the collection Poeta en Nueva York. It pairs nocturnal, natural, and erotic imagery around the figure of Lolita, using a repeated refrain, The branches die of love
, to bind images of night, water, salt, roses, anise and silver. The poem creates a concise, dreamlike scene where landscape and desire merge through sensory details and rhythmic repetition.
The night soaks itself along the shore of the river and in Lolita’s breasts the branches die of love. The branches die of love. Naked the night sings above the bridges of March. Lolita bathes her body with salt water and roses. The branches die of love. The night of anise and silver shines over the rooftops. Silver of streams and mirrors Anise of your white thighs. The branches die of love.
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