Arthur Rimbaud - Wandering Soul, Prodigal Son
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- Опубликовано: 29 апр 2019
- Today we look at the short and furious life of Arthur Rimbaud. He was the definition of a prodigy whose story after he quit writing at age 21, is a lot more interesting than you may think.
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I visited Rimbaud's home while visiting the township of Harar, Ethipoia w/ my French Friends, one researching their Family Ethiopian roots, that is when I was introduced to Rimbaud & his Poetry. ;)
"Not all those who wander are lost" - J.R.R. Tolkien
What I like about Rimbaud's poetry is that it is full of metaphors . It has such an unique imagery that makes me work out my imagination. From Illuminations which is a book made of several of his poems I recall a verse from his poem called Phrases. It says something like, "When the world is reduced to a single dark wood for our four eyes' astonishment, - a beach for two faithful children, - a musical house for our pure sympathy;- I shall find you". I think Rimbaud's poetic style marked such a new beginning in modern poetry.
A true poet, he wandered the Earth, didn't he? Very good job on this!!
I would recommend Graham Robb's extraordinary biography of Rimbaud. Nothing matches it.
So very interesting..a poets death is his life
Been coming back to this video off and on for two years. Rimbaud was the writer who moved me when i was 14 with Ophelia and then A Season in Hell. Great video, been reading about his life in his, and others words since a kid
In his, and others words*
Very nice video. It reminded me I had translated Rimbaud's Ophelia. I had forgotten that I had published it in a book I wrote some years ago called Shakespeare in France which contained my translations of Alexandre Dumas' Hamlet and George Sand's As You Like It.
At the time I was member of some online club, and my version of Ophelia was given to an actress who was in the cast of Hamlet. She read the poem to the cast on the night of the dress rehearsal and brought tears to herself and some of the members. I was very happy to learn that it had been so well received.
Just as an aside I find Sand much more difficult to translate than Rimbaud. She makes perfect sense in French but somehow her syntax can be troublesome in translation to English, at least for me.
Awesome!!!!! Rimbaud is great power of creativty in the human soul. Thanks for the video!!!!
A year since my last comment but still such an incredibly well put together video. So glad to have the happiness of finding this video
What a storied life in two chapters Rimbaud had.
My favorite author.
Awesome video!
Magnificent summary, what a life, what a poet
What a fantastic doco, thank you very much :)
Thank You!!! Great Summation.
Sir, thank you for the fine intro.
Paul Verlaine fell in home with him. Rambeau rejected him so Verlaine shot him ( but not killed him). Verlaine ended up in jail where he wrote his best poetry. My favorite " il pleut dans mon cours"
Truly enjoy this video of yours! When I was first introduced to Rimbaud at the age of 12, nothing thereafter influenced me as much... The simple, short writing career moved me more than any other writer/poet... How old were you when you first encountered Rimbaud? 😮
I think I was in my early 20's, probably the same age he quit writing. Rimbaud was a revelation!
@@outofthepage ... Certainly 'a revelation '! I read, have read a lot, and will continue to read a lot, but never so moved as by Rimbaud... 😉
Grazie ❤❤❤
It's a shame that I knew him in my 20s
His season in hell opened my eyes to prose poetry.
Didn't Leonardo de Caprio
play him? 🙂
It's pronounced Artyoour Rham-BOH, not Arrthur (in English) Rombart.
how tf did you say his name LMAOOOO
So he was the Kurt Cobain of the 19th century
That's just your opinion
Nothing about Rimbaud's return at the end of his short life to the Catholic faith of his childhood.
Accomplished more in 21 years than most poets do in a lifetime: really? Sylvia Plath writes a volume of such honesty and power it enters the consciousness of the human race and haunts half the planet by the time she's twenty nine? John Keats exhibits undeveloped powers some have compared to Shakespeare's gifts, dead at twenty five? Thomas Hardy, the only writer in history outside of Schiller and Goethe who is both a first rate poet and novelist, as competent at 88 years old as thirty? Frost, winner of three Pulitzers, also strong at twenty five and eighty eight,
exposing the dark side of the 20th century relentlessly for sixty years? Emily Dickinson, strange little lady of the hymnal form, extrapolating the universe from her back yard, who packed more profundity in four lines than Whitman did in a hundred? Oh, you're saying "most" poets. Shall I go on here for days to dispel that BS. No, Mr. Rimbaud, worldwide, has become fashionable: spacey, gay, anti social, the champion of the African sensibilities over European and American (the goat herder is a poet), the poor exploited wandering soul abused by "the system", who presents the surreal as the real, the real as the false, and blah blah blah. PC rears its ugly head once more, the logical conclusion of the premise, goddamn, we have missed the truth of history and promoted the wrong people! Let's rectify the situation! Kill Eliot, Chaucer, Milton, all the other dead white guys who leeched the powers of women, inverted behaviors, space cadets and sympathizers of the ignorant and poor: render the normal evil and abusive. Up with the people! and the weirdos.
plath is vastly overrated. no one is walking around reciting sylvia plath poems, unless on some college campus. I think that i shall never see a poem lovely as a tree, now thats poetry everyone knows. i prefer anne sexton.
Yikes
I have one word for you: Prozac.
But who genuinely gives a fuck whether one writes a good poem or a story in the age of 15 or 80? I mean if the poem speaks to you or story keeps you wanting to read more, that's the purpose of them. I personally like Rimbaud.
@@puliturchannel7225 You do have a point. It really doesn't matter at what age a work is created. What's interesting to me, and sort of entertaining is when writers go back and edit their juvenalia to make it seem they were more advanced at an early age.