This poet repeated the line "I want to sleep the sleep of the apples" at the beginning of one poem's Âfirst and fiÂnal stanzas.
This poet repeated the line "I want to sleep the sleep of the apples" at the beginning of one poem's Âfirst and fiÂnal stanzas.He addressed the theme of sleep in a poem outlining the "creatures of the moon" such as "the unbelievable alligator" andiguanas who "come and bite the men who do not dream". This poet described a girl with "green flflesh, her eyes green / witheyes of cold silver" waiting on a balcony in a poem with the refrain "Green, how I want you green." One of his poems begins"In the sky there is nobody asleep," and in another, the speaker repeats, "I will not see it," beseeching the moon to block hisview of the title object in a section called "The Spilled Blood". This poet of "Gacela of the Dark Death" alternated betweendescriptive lines such as "the room was iridescent with agony" and "a boy brought the white sheet" with the obsessive refrain"at Âfive in the aftfternoon" in an elegy for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias. For 10 points, name this Spanish poet who wrote Lament forthe Death of a Bullfighter and Gypsy Ballads.
This poet repeated the line "I want to sleep the sleep of the apples" at the beginning of one poem's Âfirst and fiÂnal stanzas.
Federico Garcia Lorca