Arthur Rimbaud
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The poetry of Arthur Rimbaud is often explained in terms of his biography. Such an approach is often used for literary figures, though many critics find that it is less important than the form and content of the literary works themselves. In the case of Rimbaud, however, the relationship between his life and his work has become a focus because he seems to have lived in a way that expressed certain poetic and non-conforming attitudes, while it is also possible to find a number of links between Rimbaud's life and certain images that recur in his poetry: "A revolutionary both in his life and in his art, Rimbaud exerted a radical influence on the scope and direction of French poetry." As a poet, Rimbaud is considered innovative, and his accomplishment as a poet is all the more remarkable considering how little he wrote and how young he was when he died. He is indeed known as the poet who stopped writing poetry as a matter of choice. An issue that can be raised with reference to his poetry is the role of normalcy in his word and the way transgression is treated, transgression from the social norms such as can be seen in his life and specifically in his homosexual relationship with Verlaine. For Rimbaud, poetry itself was a form of transgression, taking him away from what he considered a normal life and putting him through a certain kind of strain and terror. This was the reason why he gave up poetry and escaped to something he considered normalcy, though it might be argu
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use of two general poetic types--satiric verse, and erotic verse:
A pastiche of traditional styles and forms, these initial works nevertheless evidence a brilliant gift for verbal expression and announce the theme of revolt which informs all of Rimbaud's writings.
This constitutes poetic normalcy in one sense, while the poetry that Rimbaud would develop after this would be seen as dedicated to transgression in the form of mysticism, sexuality, and other-worldliness. Rimbaud wrote a letter in 1871 to his friend Paul Demeny, a letter that begins with a denunciation of all previous poetry as nothing more than rhymed prose. He called for a radically new vision of the mission of the poet, seeing it as the essential task of the poet to give voice to the unconscious "other" hiding behind the mask of the rational, something that can be accomplished only by "a long, immense and reasoned derangement of all the senses." Rimbaud says that the poet must take an active role and become a seer, and to do this, the poet must actively cultivate dreams, hallucinations, and even madness. The poet will thus nurture a genius "unrestrained by societal taboos and the limitations of rational thought."
The Symbolist poets of Rimbaud's time s
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