House of Bernarda Alba

I wonder if Thomas Cullinan, the writer of The Beguiled, read this play. I actually liked it just as much as Lorca's Blood Wedding. It concerns a controlling widow whose husband has just died and her household of repressed spinster daughters. Eventually a few of them go crazy about a guy in town and it eventually leads to tragedy. It took me a while to get into it but I found the play entertaining. Lorca was a pretty good playwright whose life was cut short by an assassination. It's terribly tragic since the man was so talented. I need to give his poetry a chance now.

Robinson Jeffers

When my twin sister was in the sixth grade her class was doing a poetry unit. She had a poetry phase for a while. My sister had to memorize a poem and she chose a poem by Robinson Jeffers. His poetry is mostly about nature and how people should stop what they are doing and look at its wondorous nature. My favorite poem here was Roan Stallion about a woman in an abusive marriage and her relationship with a horse.

Yerma

This was an ok play by Federico Garcia Lorca. It means barren. It's about a barren woman whose desperation leads eventually to tragedy. It's her obsession and the only function in society she can think of. She resorts to witchcraft, pretty much anything. It's sad because the ending was nearly a happy one.