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Tuesdoy, Jon. 17, 1961 The Nebroskan Page 7 A Poet in Translation (Continued from Page Six) what an effort of the dog to be a swallow, what an effort of the sal low to be a bee, what an effort of the bee to be a horse. Lorca identified himself with Walt Whitman, the old "priest who breathes divine breath." Not for. one moment hand some old Walt Whitman, have I left off seeing your beard filled with butter flies, nor your shoulders of cor duroy wasted by the moon, nor your virginal thighs of Apollo, nor your voice like a column of ashes, handsome old man like the mist who trembles like a bird with its sex pierced by a needle, enemy of the satyr, ' enemy of the vine, and lover of the bodies be neath the coarse cloth. The landscape of New York was an immense ex perience for Lorca and it is reflected in Poeta en Nueva York. Lorca was forced to penetrate the coldness of the big city and reinterpret his experience with greater intuition and deeper thought Poeta en Nueva York reveals a mature poet who combines meters such as the alexandrine, octosyl labic, endecasyllables, and at time free verse. It re veals a poet who is able to create poetic collages by re verting to surrealism and thereby presenting, with heterogeneous poetic frag ments, images such as "the shores of the horse's eye," the "croaking (like frogs at twilight), of the tender stars," or the 'combat be tween roots and far-seeing solitude." There exists some evi dences that new influences were making appeals to Lorca during his stay in New York. He may have read at this time, Whit man, Lautremont, Blake, and a Spanish translation of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. Just how far Lorca would have developed un der his new influences will never be known. The im portant point to remember upon reading Poeta en Nueva York, however, is the great reaction of L o r ca's sensibility in penetrat ing a landscape entirely dif ferent from bis own. - The essence of Lorca's poetry rests in his ability to capture the living word and image and transform them by his own personal ity. Unlike the father of "pure poetry," Juan Ramon Jimenez, who found and de veloped his poetic style in the intimacy of himself, Lorca found the essence of his poetry in the outside world, In his live for Anda lusia, in the Spanish tradi tion, and in the literary ten dencies of Spain of the twenties. Lorca's universal ity lies in the fact that he is a synthesis of the past and the present He realized that he could not escape tradition, so he went back to unite the old with the new to give fresh emphasis to a poetry that was within reach of the masses and wasn't below intellectual taste. Lorca is universal even though regional. The people of Spain recognize in him the intimacy of themselves as Spaniards. The people of Latin America recognize ' through his language, their roots with the Hispanic world. People of the non Hispanic world admire his creative imagination, the richness of his language and the native sentiments he expressed, which are the sentiments of all poetry born of the people. Federico Garcia Lorca, poet without any particular interest in politics, was shot as a communist in 1936, after it was rumored that the communists had shot in Madrid, Nobel prize-winning dramatist, Jacinto B e n a vente. His grave has never been found. Jacinto B e n a vente died more than a dec ade after the close of the Spanish Civil War. . Music . (Continued from Page Six) becomes mind lulling, more mind lulling than any dream ballad. In a so-called old standard, one is supposed to listen to and understand the words, not become mes merized by the beat. It is the great amount of money that we have in our pockets ready to spend coup led with the profit motives - of the phonograph record and radio industries that have have kept musical stand ards down. What can we do about it? Not too terrif ically much. I don't advo cate less spending money and I don't advocate a gov ernment board of standards; these are out o fthe ques tion for, I hope, very ob vious reasons. What we can do is listen to and buy only the types of music that we . really enjoy. If we would do less spur of the moment buying and buy only that which we think will last we would have more money to spend on other things, the same or more satisfaction from the records we do buy, and at the same time will have given a small but meaningful cue to the re cord manufacturer on the types of music we truly appreciate, no matter what they may be. an evening of jazz - (Continued from Page Three) be reproduced from a sheet of music by someone who hasn't the feeling for it which would make him cap able of using his own crea tive imagination. The inten sity, the strain, and the con stant searching for expres sion which are characteris tic of jazz cannot be writ ten down. These . qualities must be seething within the musician when he takes up his instrument to play. Thus every jazz musician is a living expression within himself hundreds of which are born each time he plays a number. These expres sions die as soon as they are born and are retained only for a short time in the memory of the listener, but there are as many expres sions of sorrow and happin ess, agony and ecstasy, hope and frustation as there are people in the world and they wUl never be complete ly told. Suite jazz depends so much upon the emotional sympathy of the listener, the musicians begin slowly after their break and grad ually increase the tempo and intensity as they establish the required rap port in the listeners. Your attention is drawn more and more toward the music un til you are aware of noth ing else. Finally even the musicians and their instru ments become like a scene projected in empty black space, and you lose interest even in them as you lower your eyesto the table top and your own hands. Your hands the things which gave man the ability to cre ate and, with his superior intelligence, raised him be yond the lower animals. Now they seem to have greater significance as the penetrat ing dischord and primitive rhythm peel off, one by one, the layers of veneer with which society and all its training, its complicated system of punishment and reward, has covered and contained the primeval beast For a brief moment you are completely caught up in the sound and you feel as if you were dissolv ing and becoming one with Nature, or should it be called Existence? But the feeling passes in an instant; and after it is over, you find yourself wondering wheth er it came from the effect of the music or from some hidden corner in your own being. You will be fortunate indeed if you even catch this fleeting moment again. You have learned some thing, though, or at least a new door was opened and shut in the instant and you feel as if you would like to spend the rest of your life trying to open that door again. The music is subsid ing in intensity now and the spell has faded. As you look again at the musicians you see that they are sweat ing and flushed. You look around you at the other pa trons. Some of them are in deep concentration, some are merely listening silent ly, and a few others are carrying on low conversa tion. Jazz does not effect all listeners in the same way. Your glass is empty so you order another drink, and as you nurse it you study the music through several more numbers and observe the people around you and their reactions. Each one is different. There is nothing about true jazz which demands conformity, even the reverse conformity of t h e no n-conformist groups. Reluctantly, you drain the last sip from your glass and get up to leave. You feel a little depressed as you make your way between the tables toward the steps leading up to the door. Aftgr a glance back as you reach the top of the steps, you open the door and step out. Not until the cool night air hits your face and neck do you realize how warm it was inside. The sound -is heard indistinctly now from behind the door as you mount the three steps lead ing to the sidewalk. With the first breath of fresh, cool air your head clears a "great deal and you feel like you have stepped out of a t'le Littewlas, er Pandas, i LAkSKT STOCK M W WMk Omv Saturday frM t A.M. 6 P.M. 141 He. 1M Hf 3-2007 1 pi n 1 J fantasy-land into the real world. You are a little re leived. Yet, a strange feel ing of aloneness accompan ies you as you walk slowly toward your apartment. Main Feature Clock Varsity: "The Sundowners," 1:29, 4:05, 6:41, 9:17. State: "Swiss Familv Robin- Son," 1:00, 3:50, 8:40, 9:30. Nebraskan Want Ada CLASSIFIED AD POLICY Ada to be printed In the kasslfled Met ion of th Dally Nebraskan must be accompanied oj in name ei tne person placing aald ad. FOR SALE Reo Flying Cloud Sedan 12S. Good subject for restoration. '47 Chevrolet. Very good condition. Call OR 7-88M. FOR SALE OR RENT 185, 43', 2 bedroom Monarch trailer house. Washer. Cheap. IV t-3979. 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