Lorca, Guillén, Alonso & Alberti: Spanish Drama and Poetry

Dramatic Works

Tragic and lyrical sense. Using themes of impossible love, loneliness, pain, death, lack of personal accomplishment... The farces: "Retablillo de Don Cristóbal". A historical drama, "Mariana Pineda", which achieves its first success. It uses the theme of love and politics. Avant-garde theater: "The Public" — a work that is hard to understand, of Symbolist–Surrealist nature.

Rural Tragedies: "Bodas de Sangre" — the impossibility of love due to social structures and the quarrel of two young men over a woman. It uses verse and prose. "Yerma" is written in prose: a maternity-blocked tragedy of a woman who kills her husband. "The House of Bernarda Alba" — Lorca's work where there is intense tragic conflict. It is written in prose and uses highly expressive language.

Jorge Guillén

Jorge Guillén. The characteristic of a poet and intellectual: pure poetry. The author condenses his sensations and feelings from his mind. Type "Aire Nuestro", which consists of the following works:

• Cántico: poems joyful and full of vitality in which he expresses his enthusiasm for life and the harmony of a perfect world.
• Clamor: poems addressing negative aspects.
• Homenaje (Tribute): optimistic pieces that become songlike; he portrays in this work several characters.

Dámaso Alonso

Dámaso Alonso. His most prominent works include:

• Poetry (pure; "poemillas" / City): expressive simplicity and lyrical emotion, influenced by Spanish traditional poetry.
• Hijos de la ira: uprooted and humanized poetry. He uses free verse and intense language to show his defiance, his anxiety, and his pain through a world full of horror and misery.
• Man and God: a work that serves the poet to express his angst and unease.

Rafael Alberti

Rafael Alberti: He uses the popular vein — classical, avant-garde, and surrealist poetry — and committed verse.

• "Marinero en tierra": a work with light verse that carries sadness and remembrance of the sea from Cádiz.
• "Street Poet": a book that is part of his social and political poetry, which raises the word and becomes committed.
• "Among the Carnation", "The Return of the Sword", and "Live Far Away": these belong to works written in exile, marked by haunting nostalgia.

His dramatic production includes the surrealist piece "Man Uninhabited". He also wrote epic-political texts such as "Night of War in the Prado Museum" and "The Eyesore".