...Throughout history, literature has evolved tremendously. Literature has progressed through many stages, from forms that last a short time before fading away to those existing since The Iliad. Genres of literature vary just as much as forms, and tend to change with the society around them. For example, much of modern literature would be considered scandalous a hundred years ago, even in relatively progressive countries. As language changes, different types of literature emerge in popularity. Sometimes these types stay popular, but for the most part they are eventually confined to a specific point in time. Poetry is the most prone to change, and the one that changes most quickly. In the early 1920s, a new form of poetry arose that wanted to do away with the sensitivity and sentiment of prior poetry, attempting to please or shock the senses using vivid imagery and metaphors. This style of writing became known as Surrealism. Two main influences on this movement in literature were Federico Garcia Lorca and Octavio Paz, writing works that are very similar in both their tone and subject and creating vibrant images in their poems. Lorca and Paz’s works share similarities in not only their use of imagery, but also in their recurring themes of human mortality forged from living in an area of civil unrest. Born in Spain in 1898, Lorca...
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