RHYTHM IN FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA'S POETA EN NUEVA YORK

This article explores how Federico Garcia Lorca's interest in popular and traditional poetry facilitated the poet's incursion into the "avant-garde" style with which Poeta en Nueva York is usually identified. An analysis of "El rey de Harlem", "Pequeno vals vienes", and "Son de negros en Cuba" attempts to show that, far from practicing "free" verse, Garcia Lorca's poems are guided by rhythmic considerations established by resources such as accent, phonetic range, syllabic patterns, verbal tenses, syntactic structures and rhetorical figures of repetition.