Rimbaud and Verlaine: Desperate love

        Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), born in Charlesville, Adenauer, France, was a highly striking genius poet of the late nineteenth century whose contributions to French lyric poetry, especially prose poetry, were enormous. Together with Baudelaire, Maramé, Verlaine, Valery, etc., he constituted a magnificent landscape of the Symbolist poetic movement.

        The French poet Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) was a "king of poets" of French Symbolism, and in the art of poetry, Verlaine was a rebellious and traditional poet. Verlaine studied law in his early years, and later abandoned the law in favor of literature, and he had close contact with the Banas poets, who subjectively followed the Banas school.

        In 1867, Verlaine was introduced by a friend to the poets Motel de Fölvelle, and in their association he fell in love with their daughter Matilte, and the two became formally engaged in 1869. In Verlaine's mind, Miss Mathilde was even the white jade immaculate of the gods in his mind, and he loved her intensely, and wrote many beautiful poems for her, as described in "Green", "Here is my heart, it is only beating for you", "Please use your beautiful eyes to see my gentle obedience".

        When Rimbaud met Verlaine, Verlaine was already a famous poet in Paris and the provinces. Rimbaud read his Feast Collection in 1870 and read numerous book reviews of the Good Songs. So he wrote to Verlaine asking to see him. Rimbaud was only 16 years old at the time.

        Rimbaud's talent captivated Verlaine, and with Verlaine's help, Rimbaud soon became famous in the poetry scene of the Parisian avant-garde. Verlaine lured Rimbaud to smoke marijuana, and went out with him day and night to drink and lie drunk on the street, and the two also kissed in public, and the intimacy was unusual. Soon, Verlaine fell out of harmony with his wealthy wife, and he and Rimbaud wandered to Holland and England and had a romantic life.

        However, boredom soon arrived, and Rimbaud proposed to Weerlun to break up, and Verlaine could not stand Rimbaud's betrayal, and the bullet that had been used for suicide was fired at Rimbaud, who was sentenced to two years in prison for homicide and misconduct.

        After Verlaine went to prison, Rimbaud returned to Schalville alone and wrote "A Season of Hell": "From the bones, I am a beast. In the poem, Rimbaud recalls the years of the "hell lovers" he and Verlaine lived together, and he even calls Verlaine "sad brother" and "crazy virgin", while he is his "husband to hell", using confessional descriptions to make everything entangled between the spirit and flesh loom. This immortal prose poem is a decision with the past, and it is also Rimbaud's farewell poetry book.

        After Verlaine left Rimbaud, he complained to people that Rimbaud squeezed the marrow of his bones, so his life was considered to be the end. He worked as a teacher, opened a farm, and so on, all of which ended in failure. The poems fall into more bleak themes, drinking heavily and taking turns living with two middle-aged prostitutes, not forgetting to write poems that take turns praising them. He also has a boyfriend who occasionally makes a cameo appearance as a thief. In 1896, at the age of 52, the impoverished Verlaine died in a prostitute's home.

        The two once loved so vigorously and hopelessly, fell into a desperate love because they could truly understand each other, and after burning the romance of talent and passion, what awaited each other was doomed to not be able to stay together.

        You should have known long ago that a crazy freedom like Rimbaud, the son of the sun, how can he keep love for a lifetime.