2. adolescence
during his adolescence, between the ages of seventeen and
twenty, during which time he wrote almost all of his work. At
the age of nineteen, he published his prose poem A Station in
Hell, a text that positioned him as one of the most recognized
Symbolist poets of the time.
3. epoch
Divided into nine parts, the poem
refers to a painful time in the
poet's life, as his relationship with
Paul Verlaine, another renowned
Symbolist poet, began to
deteriorate.
4. How is the text found?
The text is marked by feelings of disappointment and sadness that fall on
Rimbaud's sufferings, but it also has slight feelings of hope that come and
go between its parts. At age twenty-one, Rimbaud gave up writing
altogether and traveled to Africa in search of riches. He died at the age of
thirty-seven in Marseille from cancer.
