Stronger than alcohol, vaster than music, In pallid flotsam, a dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down ĭeliriums and slow rhythms under the gleams of the daylight, Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk,ĭevouring the green azures where, entranced The green water penetrated my pinewood hullĪnd washed me clean of the bluish wine-stainsĪnd the splashes of vomit, carrying away both rudder and anchor.Īnd from that time on I bathed in the Poem Sweeter than the flesh of sour apples to children,
Which men call the eternal rollers of victims,įor ten nights, without once missing the foolish eye of the harbor lights! Lighter than a cork, I danced on the waves The storm made bliss of my sea-borne awakenings. More absorbed than the minds of children, I ran! Into the ferocious tide-rips, last winter, The Rivers let me sail downstream where I pleased. When, along with my haulers, those uproars stopped, Gaudy Redskins had taken them for targets,Ĭarrying Flemish wheat or English cotton. I no longer felt myself steered by the haulers: Summers' Gay & Lesbian Literary Heritage, see the articles and bibliographies for "Rimbaud," "Verlaine," and "French Literature: Nineteenth Century." There are many resources including additional poems, articles, and photographs at Peter Pullicino's excellent Rimbaud site. If you read French, here are the original texts of Les Illuminations and Une Saison en enfer also, both Rimbaud and Verlaine's complete works are at Athena: Textes d'auteurs d'expression française.
#ARTHUR RIMBAUD ILLUMINATIONS FARCE FREE#
Feel free to read these or any other translations. And remember that all points of view are welcome, including critical ones. You might also want to peruse these five Verlaine poems. I admit that initially I had a lot of trouble reading Rimbaud: so if you don't connect with one of these works, try some of the others. A Season in Hell is an hallucinatory memoir. Illuminations contains about three dozen brief prose poems.
What to Read: " The Drunken Boat" is the visionary piece which first brought Rimbaud to Verlaine's attention. He wrote all of his masterpieces before the age of 20. Lovecraft, the Surrealists, Federico García Lorca, Hart Crane, Jean Genet, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Jim Morrison & the Doors, Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, and today's alternative music scene. He was a seminal influence on artists as diverse as Oscar Wilde, Jean Cocteau, H.P. Below is the material we used.Ībout Rimbaud: Rimbaud is one of the world's most influential writers. On Augwe had a Fiction & Film Group event focused on Rimbaud and Verlaine's poetry as well as the film about their tempestuous relationship, Total Eclipse. " The Drunken Boat, " Illuminations, & A Season in HellĪrthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) updated 8/22/99 with links to original French texts Rimbaud's "Drunken Boat," Illuminations & Season in Hell
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