In Spain, those who deliberately put themselves in greater danger were idealized. The core of this idea centers on the Spanish sport of bullfighting. In this act, the bullfighter, or matador, lures the bull into an arena and then kills the bull for the audience. One matador in particular was enormously popular. His name was Ignacio Sanchez Mejias. Not only was he praised for his bullfighting skills, but he was intellectually gifted. He was a critic, poet, actor and sportsman. He eventually abandoned bullfighting, but in 1934 he made the fatal mistake of returning to the bullring one last time. In the latter event, he was gored by the bull and eventually died of gangrene as a result of his injuries. A dear friend and poet of the matador, Garcia Lorca, commemorated him by writing an elegy entitled “Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias”. It was written to commemorate and celebrate the death of a man who many considered Spain's bravest and most valiant matador. It is a long elegy divided into four parts corresponding to four dramatic movements. These movements are driven by an emotional pattern, descending into grief and despair as full awareness of the loss is felt, and then gradually working through the grief to the point where the poem begins to resurrect, finding some kind of reconciliation and comfort. Through this emotional journey Garcia Lorca immortalizes the memory of a deceased friend. In the first part, "Cogida and Death", Lorca creates the turmoil, Ignacio's accident and the agony of death that finally surrounded him. It opens immediately at the exact time of the tragedy, “five in the afternoon” (1), and continues to focus on the horrible details of the arena. Lorca recreates the scene with: “A boy brought the white lei… middle of paper… only art can preserve Ignacio, and with his words he will build a verbal monument that will stand the test of time. Garcia Lorca's poetry accompanies us through the tragedy, up to the bitter resolution. He paints us a morbid, cold but memorable scene of Ignacio's death, while at the same time showing the honesty in his feelings towards the death of his beloved friend. At first he refused to accept the bullfighter's death, refusing to look at his blood. But through this refusal he recounted his friend's many wonders, which ultimately guided him to look at the body. As he does so, meditate on the mystery of death, and with the idea of ​​death you will become nothing but a distant memory, and eventually you will be forgotten. But in the final protest, or resolution, Lorca accepts that he will always carry his memory with him, and sing his name, giving it a permanent form that death cannot conquer..