Arthur Rimbaud - Wandering Soul, Prodigal Son

Awesome!!!!! Rimbaud is great power of creativty in the human soul. Thanks for the video!!!!

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.

It's a shame that I knew him in my 20s
His season in hell opened my eyes to prose poetry.

So he was the Kurt Cobain of the 19th century

That's just your opinion

A true poet, he wandered the Earth, didn't he? Very good job on this!!

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

What a fantastic doco, thank you very much :)

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.

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? 😮

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

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.

"Not all those who wander are lost" - J.R.R. Tolkien

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"

My favorite author.
Awesome video!

Magnificent summary, what a life, what a poet

Sir, thank you for the fine intro.

What a storied life in two chapters Rimbaud had.

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. ;)

Verlaine was just horny for a young kid to bugger . Thats why he was impressed . He raped Rimbaud recklessly . The 3 r's

Grazie ❤❤❤

He was a pathetic human being. He hated most people, but himself most of all.

Thank You!!! Great Summation.

It's pronounced Artyoour Rham-BOH, not Arrthur (in English) Rombart.

Didn't Leonardo de Caprio
play him? 🙂

how tf did you say his name LMAOOOO

British composer Benjamin Britten composed a wonderful song cycle based on Les Illuminations. In the original French. Check it out.

The old trains look very modern

You can write poetry but when you stop the poetry writs you if you are really a poet.