Analysis of the poem The Guitar By Federico Garcia Lorca
...e speaker's sense of unrest and disrupted peace of mind. The 'weeping' of the guitar is heard within the speakers' mind. The actions occurring in the world that exists within the speakers' mind is far different to that of the world around him. Therefore this means that the guitar doesn't necessarily have to be physically or tangibly present to emanate the tune the speaker hears. As the sound of the guitar begins his inner peace is disrupted, Lorca portrays this thought through the speaker when he says: "The goblets of dawn are smashed." (2) The speaker's inner peace are like the drinking containers which delicately hold the colors of dawn along with its new hope free from torment as it represents the coming of a new day. However, the sense of harmony and repose is fractured as the goblets of dawn are smashed. This depicts the image of broken pieces, and the colors of dawn slowly draining away and disappearing into a tumult of darkness, for if dawn can no longer come the sky remains the color of the late hours of the night. The sentence "The weeping of the guitar begins"(1,3) is repeated throughout the poem, repetition gives it a sense of lost hope as though the speaker were saying: "Anguish has come, anguish has begun", and then goes on to repeat "Impossible to silence it." (5, 9) adding to its graveness. The first three sentences have a very dramatic impact upon the reader and determine the direction of the poem. "The weeping of the guitar begins. The goblets of dawn are smashed. The weeping of the guitar begins." The repetition is used effectively to emphasize how the torment has begun once again. How the song inside his head has started to buzz endlessly and the lament of his sub-conscience for the things he can not achieve have begun its never...