Arthur Rimbaud

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"The Drunken Boat" and Other Poems by Arthur Rimbaud

"The Drunken Boat" and Other Poems by Arthur Rimbaud

"The Drunken Boat" ("Le Bateau ivre") is a 100-line verse-poem written in 1871 by Arthur Rimbaud. The poem describes the drifting and sinking of a boat lost at sea in a fragmented first-person narrative saturated with vivid imagery and symbolism. It...

Illuminations include some autobiographical allusions to his voyant (visionary) period, which began in 1869; but Illuminations is neither a confession nor an apology. Its several dozen short prose works and two free-verse poems transcend prose grammar...

Poème du Mois - 007 Le dormeur du val

Poème du Mois - 007 Le dormeur du val

Chaque mois, nous choisissons un poème qui est enregistré par un maximum de librivoxeurs ais.Ce poème est sans doute inspiré au jeune Rimbaud, 16 ans à l'époque, par la guerre franco-allemande de 1870, et plus particulièrement par la bataille de Sedan...