The heartbreaking song to Death. Philosophical Analysis of the work of Federico García Lorca

Abstract

The death is a key aspect in Federico García Lorca’s work, which became an obsession imbuing his whole bibliography. This subject, common in poets and writers from the same era, achieves a special quality by the hand of the literati who faces and thinks about it through his poems and plays. This article proposes a philosophical analysis about the death in Lorca’s pages doing a tour of his main works dedicated to this topic. For that, firstly, it shows Lorca’s view of the death and his way of understanding. Then, it analyzes the tragic view of death in his poems and works. To conclude, I would like to highlight that the poet’s  work does not consider death from a tragic view of life but from a philosophy of creation.