This poem was written by a Spanish poet named Federico García Lorca. It comes from his collection entitled "Romancero Gitano  which was published in 1928 and brought him fame across Spain and the Hispanic world. La Monja Gitana was written during the early part in Lorca's early career and Romancero Gitano became Lorca's best known book. The text consists of thirty six lines which rhyme. The title of Federico García's poem "La Monja Gitana  means the gypsy nun. La Monja Gitana instantly captures the reader's attention and gives the reader high expectations early on for a sensational read. This poem is about the eagerness of a traditional Nun to live without any social restrictions and the pressure that convent life brings to bear on her. The poem is filled with sexual images and Lorca's way of words is astounding. Every single word Lorca uses helps us to understand the frustration within the Nun and the repression of the Church. The title of the poem lives up to its expectation of a well-written deep piece of poetry. The First verses of the poem take place in a harmonious environment, perhaps in silence, without joy and without colour, all of which represent the life of a Nun. Nevertheless these verses are important as they set the scene for the rest of the poem. Precipitously towards the end of the poem vivid fantasies begin to appear in the mind of the nun. The forbidden begins to sprout in your imagination. The grey takes colour and the oppressed becomes free, so much that the mallows (weeds that damage the fine herb) may be representing the daring thoughts as a gypsy nun begins to emerge within it. Her desires begin seizing the defenceless woman and she begins to feel the passion and satisfaction that guide her to a path that is not assigned to her life but she chooses to move on. The poem commences with a Nun sitting in silence embroidering flowers on a piece of cloth in a church quiet as can be "Silencio de cal y mirto, Malvas en las hierbas finas. La monja borda alhelíes sobre una tele pajiza . The struggle that the Nun is going through is suggested within the first line "Silencio de cal y mirto.  This introduction to the Nun plays a key part in understanding her bac