Le Bateau ivre

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Le Bateau ivre is a seminal symbolist poem by Arthur Rimbaud, celebrated for its vivid imagery and revolutionary free-form exploration of a drifting, visionary consciousness.

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instanceOf French poem
Symbolist poem
poem
approximateYearWritten 1871
associatedWith French symbolism
surface form: French Symbolism

modernist poetics
author Arthur Rimbaud
canonicalStatus major work of French poetry
seminal Symbolist text
centralImage drunken boat
countryOfOrigin France
firstPublicReadingBy Paul Verlaine
form lyric poem
narrative poem
genre Symbolism
imageryDomain cosmic imagery
maritime imagery
natural landscapes
influenced 20th-century avant-garde literature
Surrealism
modern French poetry
language French
literaryMovement Symbolism
literaryPeriod 19th-century French literature
narrativePerspective first person
notableFor break with traditional narrative logic
hallucinatory vision
innovative use of metaphor
revolutionary treatment of consciousness
vivid imagery
numberOfLines 100
partOf Arthur Rimbaud's poetic oeuvre
placeWritten Charleville-Mézières
surface form: Charleville
rhymeScheme regular end-rhyme
setting rivers
sea
speaker personified boat
style dense symbolism
highly imagistic
musical language
theme alienation
break with tradition
freedom and drift
loss of control
poetic imagination
visionary experience
titleTranslation The Drunken Boat
verseForm alexandrine
yearWritten 1871

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Arthur Rimbaud notableWork Le Bateau ivre
Arthur Rimbaud wrote Le Bateau ivre
The Drunken Boat originalTitle Le Bateau ivre