Surrounded by a society in which poetry was the fashion, Lorca wrote this set of poems at an early age. `Poetry was a social, friendly accomplishment, natural to the society in which Garcia Lorca was born'. He was very attached to his hometown and drawn to his own culture. The poems he wrote in 1922 from the popular Andalusia music were an inspiration to many other poets. Lorca wrote Poema del cante jondo in the attempt to approximate language through his poems, and music through methods to make the writing rhythmic. He also wanted to sanitise music from a very ancient tradition known as the flamenco, which used to mainly take place in brothels. He saw it as corrupted and wanted to give it that sense of purity back. In one of his lectures, Lorca describes the origins of the Cante Jondo. These poems originally songs coming from India...