Blood Wedding.

USE OF LANGUAGE IN BLOOD WEDDING. Lorca’s use of language in Blood Wedding is very poetic. He uses lots of metaphors and moves from Prose to Verse within the play. In Blood Wedding, poetry and drama seem to become one as characters talk to each other in verse form. But verse is only used in the play at a heightened dramatic point or to help create tension. For example, when Leonardo and the Bride …showed first 75 words of 441 total…

…showed last 75 words of 441 total…woman are very symbolic. I think that Lorca wanted them to symbolise death, and the whole idea of it. The moon wanted to shine it’s light all over the forest to find Leonardo and the Bride so they could be killed. There is a great sense of evil surrounding the moon and the Beggar woman. The woodcutters talk to the moon and they say, “O evil moon! Leave the dark bough for their love!”