"Farewell" by Federico Garcia Lorca, BBS II, Business Communication, Visions. Summary and analysis.
Farewell
F. G. Lorca
Summary and Analysis:
Federico Garcia Lorca's poem "Farewell,"
translated from the Spanish by Federico
Garcia Lorca is a romantic
lyric which expresses a desire for the senses to feast on even after death.
The poet or the person (the speaker of the poem) asked
someone, perhaps one of his family members, to leave the balcony open if he
dies, because from his balcony he wants to see the little boy eating oranges
and hear the reaper harvesting the wheat.
There are some people who say that this life on Earth and
the physical world here is a world of illusion, meaningless, and our senses are
not real; only life after death is real. They give preference to the spirit or
the soul. And want to forget the physical world. There are others who give
preference to the physical world and condemn the existence of the spiritual
world. Unlike them, the poem seems to suggest that this world and the life here
is real and we must enjoy it. Our senses are real what we do, hear, or feel
have importance. Life is not illusion. We have to make meaningful by enjoying
different activities here in the Earth. The poet is not fed up with the worldly
activities. So much so that he even after death wants to return back and enjoy
the little boy eating oranges and the reaper harvesting the wheat. Eating
oranges is symbolic of enjoying earthly activities with pleasure, so is
harvesting the wheat.
The poet wants to keep the balance attitude towards the
physical and the spiritual world. He seems to believe in both. The world
'balcony' hare is this poem stands for a vintage point from where both inside
and outside can be seen. Here inside refers to the soul and outside refers to
the physical world. This world 'balcony' has been repeated four times in the
poem. This repetition has great significance. He seems, thus, to suggest that
souls are real, so are bodies. Acting the present, enjoy it and make it meaningful.
The little 'Farewell' suggests ironical situation or
irony of life. The poet does not like to leave the Earth and bid farewell but
he has to by force. He is not ready to die because he wants to enjoy the
sensory activities here but he is compelled to say farewell. This shows the
disparity between human wish or desire and the actuality.
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