About “Le Bateau ivre”
Le Bateau ivre is a Symbolist poem written by Arthur Rimbaud in the summer of 1871 when he was sixteen years old. The poem consists of one hundred lines, divided into twenty-five quatrains with four alexandrines each. It tells the story of a boat lost at sea through a fragmented first-person narrative filled with vivid imagery and symbolic elements. The work is widely recognized as a masterpiece of the Symbolist movement and has had a major impact on modern poetry. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
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- 1871
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