Compared to Lorga, I think most people are more familiar with Dali. He has long been famous in China, and the Millennium Monument even held Dali's painting exhibitions in his early years, which caused a lot of commotion and noise in Beijing for a while. People who don't understand painting may know Dali, but people who don't read poetry rarely know Lorga. It seems that in the era of consumerism, painting is far easier to become its ally than poetry. This also confirms from another aspect that John Berger is in
Lorga's poems are as innocent, passionate, and sensitive, with a song-like rhythm (he was deeply influenced by Gypsy music). And his precious heart of innocence is often expressed through the genius and outstanding images in his poems. He praises those simple and free lives, opposes all distortions of this kind of life, and opposes the trampling of freedom (this is also the focus of the film). The following is a passage from his famous long poem "The Elegy of Inezio Sanchez Meyas", which I have quoted many times on different occasions because it is so outstanding:
no one knows you. no. And I sing for you.
I sing your graceful demeanor for the sake of my children and grandchildren.
Sing as you understand it.
Sing about your appetite for death and the taste of its kiss.
Sing the sorrow under your brave joy.
It will take a long time, if possible, to give birth to
an Andalusian who is so real and rich in danger.
I sing his grace with groaning words, and
I remember the sad wind in the olive grove.
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