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    A Study Guide for Antonio Machado's "The Crime Was in Granada"
    A Study Guide for Antonio Machado's "The Crime Was in Granada"
    A Study Guide for Antonio Machado's "The Crime Was in Granada"
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    A Study Guide for Antonio Machado's "The Crime Was in Granada"

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    A Study Guide for Antonio Machado's "The Crime Was in Granada," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 26, 2016
    ISBN9781535835992
    A Study Guide for Antonio Machado's "The Crime Was in Granada"

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      The Crime Was in Granada

      Antonio Machado

      1936

      Introduction

      Antonio Machado's poem The Crime Was in Granada is about a real historical event, the murder of the Spanish writer Federico García Lorca on July 18, 1936. Lorca was killed at the onset of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1937); it was a murder almost certainly politically motivated in part. The poem was first published in memory of Lorca in the newspaper Ayuda on October 17, 1936.

      Lorca is said to have been killed by supporters of General Francisco Franco, who were intent on eliminating influential artists and other figures who did not support the general in his attempt to take over Spain. Others suggest that a personal vendetta was involved and that Lorca's support of those opposing Franco was only part of what instigated his murder. Either way, this killing was a shameful assassination of a great literary figure whose involvement in politics was minimal, despite his political convictions; this shame is a major theme in Machado's poem. That is, by emphasizing so strongly that Lorca was killed in his own hometown (he was born in 1898 just outside Granada, in Fuente Vaqueros, and his family moved to Granada in 1909), Machado suggests the degree to which Lorca's death was a terrible betrayal of fundamental

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