What are common elements found in the poetry of Federico García Lorca?

Federico García Lorca, who was executed at age 38, was extremely prolific during his short life. He began publishing poetry in the 1920s. His early works were romantic evocations of his childhood in southern Spain. His Andalusian background provided the themes of several early collections about the traditional figure of the gypsy, such as Gypsy Ballads (Romancero gitano). He drew extensively on folklore and folk songs. While some critics disapproved of the work for reinforcing stereotypes about Spanish life, making it seem stuck in the past, other have pointed out that the figure stands for all oppressed people. Because Lorca was gay, this representation has gained further appreciation in recent years.
At the start of the Great Depression, Lorca visited New York City. His disillusion with American society, including materialism and racism, figure in his Poet in New York. He later used symbolism extensively to explore themes of identity and interior consciousness, notably in The Divan at the Tamarit. Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter (Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías), written soon before his murder in 1937, includes perhaps his most famous poem, “At Five O’Clock in the Afternoon.” The entire work both memorializes an individual matador and serves as an elegy for the contemporary Fascist threats to Spanish culture.