Looking for a dying bullfighter poem featuring wounds burning like suns.

May 6, 2005 10:49 PM

I read this poem somewhere, decades ago. It contained the very Yoda-like phrase: "Like suns his wounds were burning". I've Googled up a storm over this one, but no luck so far. Anybody recognize it?
posted by GoatCactus to writing & language (5 comments total)

Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias? It's by Federico García Lorca. A copy is here.
posted by fionab at 10:56 PM on May 6, 2005

That phrase is 6 lines up from the bottom of Section 1.
posted by fionab at 10:57 PM on May 6, 2005

Yes, that's it! I seem to have added the Yoda-like phrasing myself, as the original reads "The wounds were burning like suns". I've obviously watched Star Wars too many times.
posted by GoatCactus at 11:12 PM on May 6, 2005

Here's a photo to go along with it (self link).
posted by fionab at 11:14 PM on May 6, 2005

Yes, that's it! I seem to have added the Yoda-like phrasing myself, as the original reads "The wounds were burning like suns"

Well, the original reads:

Las heridas quemaban como soles

You could be remembering it correctly but from a different translation.
posted by vacapinta at 12:45 AM on May 7, 2005