Rimbaud's drug taking and generally unclean living eventually alienated everyone except Verlaine.
In 1871 Rimbaud met Verlaine and the two had a relationship, which was almost the undoing of Verlaine. The hallucinatory images in The Drunken Boat (1871) and Rimbaud's urging, in Letter from the Seer (1871), that poets become seers by undergoing a complete derangement of the senses also reveal Rimbaud as a precursor of surrealism. His Sonnet of the Vowels (1871), in which each vowel is assigned a color, helped popularize synesthesia (the description of one sense experience in terms of another), a device widely exploited by the symbolists.
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Rimbaud is also considered to have been one of the creators of the free verse style because of the rhythmic experiments in his prose poems Illuminations (1886). His own poetic philosophy began to take shape at this time. He lived willingly in squalid conditions, studying immoral poets (such as Baudelaire) and reading voraciously everything from occult to philosophy. Immersed in his rebellion, he denounced women and the church.
Broke, Rimbaud lived on the city streets. He ran away more than once before finally making it to Paris. In 1870, restless and despondent over the loss of his favorite teacher (who'd left to fight in the Franco-Prussian War), Rimbaud ran away from home. Not having many playmates there, he concentrated on his studies, yearning to learn more and became a gifted student. Rimbaud liked to play with the neighbourhood children, which horrified his mother and she somehow found the means to move them to the better part of town. When he was 6 years old his family was abandoned by their father, an army captain, and forced into poverty. His genius, both in its early flowering and its sudden extinction is a sadly astonishing phenomenon.Jean-Nicholas-Arthur Rimbaud was born on Octoat Charleville in provincial France. He started writing poems while still in primary school, and stopped completely before he turned 21! He was most creative in his late-teens (17–20). Arthur Rimbaud was a French poet who influenced modern literature and arts, inspired various musicians, and prefigured surrealism in his short but active life.
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