About rivers, hyacinths and dark places: the homosexual love theme in «Pequeño vals vienés», by Federico García Lorca

Abstract

In this work I analyse the symbology of the merely studied poem «Pequeño vals vienés», presented in Lorca’s book Poeta en Nueva York, in order to study the kind of love that is shown. These symbols, and their comparative with the present ones in other works of the author, as the «Oda a Walt Whitman», the Sonetos del amor oscuro or El público, let us notice that in «Pequeño vals vienés» it is represented a homosexual love that can have place only in the dark realm of the unconscious, the dream, where the two lovers can find each other without fearing the social rejection.