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A LOVE STORY
PAUL VERLAINE AND ARTHUR RIMBAUD
ROCÍO GIMÉNEZ ZÁLVEZ

2. Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud were two of the most
important French poets of the 19th century.
Both were related to the symbolist tendency.
They met after Verlaine was married, which did not impede
their stormy relationship.

3. Paul Verlaine Arthur Rimbaud

4. SOME POEMS
 Paul Verlaine AUTUMN SONG
Leaf-strewing gales
Utter low wails
Like violins
Till on my heart
Their creeping dole
Stealthily wins
Days long gone by
In such hour, I,
Choking and pale
Call you to mind
Then like the wind
Weep I and wail
And, as by kind
Harsh and unkind
Driven by grief
Go I, here, there
Recking not where,
Like the dead leaf.

5. Arthur Rimbaud
MY BOHEME
I went off with my hands in my torn coat pockets;
My overcoat too was becoming ideal;
I travelled beneath the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal;
Oh dear me! what marvellous loves I dreamed of!
My only pair of breeches had a big whole in them.
-Stargazing Tom Thumb, I sowed rhymes along my way.
My tavern was at the Sign of the Great Bear.
-My stars in the sky rustled softly.
And I listened to them, sitting on the road-sides
On those pleasant September evenings while I felt drops
Of dew on my forehead like vigoruos wine;
And while, rhyming among the fantastical shadows,
I plucked like the strings of a lyre the elastics
Of my tattered boots, one foot close to my heart!

6. They met each other in 1872, when Verlaine was 28
years old and Rimbaud 18. The famous poet Verlaine,
received the yet unknown Rimbaud in his home for a
few weeks, when their love story started.
After that, Verlaine left his wife and his little daughter
and escaped for 2 years to London and Brussels with
his lover.
In 1874, Rimbaud wanted to break of with Verlaine
who answered shooting in the hand of his lover.

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AFTER THE REALTIONSHIP
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On the one hand, Rimbaud, after the relationship with Verlaine, went to
Central-Africa, where worked as serves and arms trafficker. He suffered a
tumour on his leg, what obliged him to return to France. He died here, after
the amputation of his ill leg.
He was a versatile man, who used to change his life periodically, and after
1874 he never wrote poetry again.
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On the other hand, Verlaine was in prison for two years because the attack to
Rimbaud. After that, he came back to France, where he returned to his past
life. Probably, he never forgot Rimbaud, and he used to tell that, when he
drank absinthe, the image of Arthur was the unique hallucination he could
have.

8. TOTAL ECLIPSE This stormy love story inspired the director Agnieszka Holland to produce a film in
1995.
 In this film, a young Leonardo Di Caprio represents Rimbaud and David Thewlis
has the role of Verlaine.
We can see here a scene of the film
in which appear Leonardo Di
Caprio as Rimbaud and David
Thewlis as Verlaine.
Total Eclipse 1995 - Theatrical Traile

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