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

GoatCactus — Fri, 06 May 2005 22:49:25 -0800

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?

By: fionab

fionab — Fri, 06 May 2005 22:56:21 -0800

Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias? It's by Federico García Lorca. A copy is here.

By: fionab

fionab — Fri, 06 May 2005 22:57:32 -0800

That phrase is 6 lines up from the bottom of Section 1.

By: GoatCactus

GoatCactus — Fri, 06 May 2005 23:12:50 -0800

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.

By: fionab

fionab — Fri, 06 May 2005 23:14:20 -0800

Here's a photo to go along with it (self link).

By: vacapinta

vacapinta — Sat, 07 May 2005 00:45:30 -0800

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.