1. In the "Cogida and Death" how does Lorca communicate the idea that time has stopped? How does he communicate the paralysis he feels at the death of his friend?

2. What occurs in the "plaza de toros" immediately after the death of Sánchez Mejías? How does the poet employ images to describe the action? How is blood represented? Violence? Funereal music? The crowd?

3. How is the advancing gangrene depicted?

4. What emotion does the repetition of "at five in the afternoon" produce in the reader?

5. What is the theme of "Spilled Blood"?

6. Why can’t Ignacio find the dawn, his profile, and his body?

7. What are the "bulls of Guisando (p.141)? Why are they mentioned?

8. What does the poet mean when he says that Ignacio "goes up the tiers / with all his death on his shoulders" (p.141)? How does Lorca show that the death of Ignacio pains him deeply?

9. Why does the poet say that Ignacio did not close his eyes when he saw the horns of the bull near him (p.143)? What does this tell us about Ignacio?

10. How does Lorca express the idea that Ignacio is superior in every way? What qualities does he attribute to him in the section that begins "There isn’t a prince in Seville" (p.143)?

11. What images does Lorca employ to represent the disintegration of the body (p.145)? How do these images express the horror he feels at the death of his friend?

12. How do the poem’s tone and perspective change in "The Laid Out Body"?

13. How is eternity represented? Does the poet still refuse to look at Ignacio’s body?

14. How does the poet express his resignation to the death of his friend?

15. Why does he call to "those men of hard voice (p.149)"? What does he want from them?

16. In what sense do the words "even the sea" (p.151) console the poet?

17. In "Absent Soul" how does the poet express the idea that death brings forgetfulness? What examples does the poem provide that forgetfulness/oblivion follows death?

18. How does Lorca intend to protect his friend from forgetfulness?