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Interesting Questions, Facts and Information
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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 Rimbaud, Arthur
Thimothina Labinette. Throughout the story Rimbaud changes his character's name slightly.
| What are the first eight words of Rimbaud's prose poem that begins his collection of prose poems entitled "Illuminations"? | Mondo Arthur Rimbaud Part 1
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After the idea of the flood had subsided. The "Illuminations" and 99% of Rimbaud's work were published after he died. Only one of his mature poems was published while he was alive, and a few pieces of his schoolwork.
Paul Verlaine. His relationship with Paul Verlaine is one of the most famous and infamous couplings in all of literature. In fact, an entire motion picture was even made based on the three years they were together, called "Total Eclipse".
April-August 1873. Five months is brief enough for such a perfected, minute work, but almost half of the five months he was embroiled in hardships involving Paul Verlaine, including being shot by him.
his left hand. Verlaine shot Rimbaud because Rimbaud wanted to go back to Paris and Verlaine didn't want that, and Verlaine being already a little mentally disturbed at this point, he was pushed over the edge by this news and lost it.
| Rimbaud had a very close friend named George Izambard. The poem "The Lice Seekers" was written about which of Izambard's relatives? | Mondo Arthur Rimbaud Part 1
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his three aunts. Rimbaud hated cleanliness, as did other geniuses of the 19th and early 20th centuries, and he hated to bathe and wash his hair, and so therefore had lice frequently. The poem was about Izambard's aunts picking the lice out of Rimbaud's hair.
the mouth of darkness. Rimbaud, at times, strongly disliked his mother, and three times before he was 16 had run away.
Victor Hugo. Some say this is apocryphal, but who knows. It's nice to believe it is true.
flowed. Jean-Nicolas-Arthur Rimbaud was born on October 20, 1854, in Charleville, France.
| "I have a horror of all trades. Master and workers, base peasants all.
The hand that guides the pen is worth the hand that guides the...".
What's the missing word? | "A Season in Hell" by Arthur Rimbaud
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plough. Rimbaud's father, Frederic, was a career soldier. He left his family
when Arthur was six years old, never to return.
spare. Rimbaud was an outstanding student, but his behavior was considerd
provocative. At the College de Charleville, he took first prize in the
Concours Academique.
| "At last, O happiness, O reason, I brushed from the sky the azure that is darkness, and I lived--gold spark of pure...". What's the missing
word?
| "A Season in Hell" by Arthur Rimbaud
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light. In 1871, Rimbaud met poet Paul Verlaine. (1844-1896) He would later
leave his young wife, and unborn child to lead a bohemian lifestyle
with Rimbaud in London in 1872.
| "We're not going. Back over the old roads again, laden with my vices
whose roots of suffering have flourished at my side since reason...".
What's the missing word? | "A Season in Hell" by Arthur Rimbaud
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dawned. In a relationship fueled by drug and drink, Rimbaud ended the torrid
affair, in Brussels, only to be shot in the wrist by a drunken Verlaine.
| "I called to the executioners that I might gnaw their rifle-butts while
dying. I called to the plagues to smother me in blood, in sand.
Misfortune was my...". What's the missing word? | "A Season in Hell" by Arthur Rimbaud
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god. Rimbaud returned home and finished "Une Saison en Enfer". After its
printing he sent copies to literary friends in Paris. With the Brussels
scandal still looming, he found himself snubbed by all.
her. Around 1873, disillusioned with literature, Rimbaud burned all his
manuscripts, and remaining copies of "Une Saison en Enfer". He ended
his literary career at the age of nineteen. He began wondering Europe,
learning many languages, and working countless odd jobs.
fare. Around 1875, Rimbaud crossed the Alps on foot to reach Italy, where he
hoped to work in a soap factory. In 1876 Rimbaud went to Holland and
enlisted into the Dutch army, to reach the Orient. He sailed to Java,
and deserted three weeks later.
| "My health was threatened. Terror came. I would fall into a slumber of
days, and getting up would go on with the same sad...". What's the missing word? | "A Season in Hell" by Arthur Rimbaud
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dreams. On April 2, 1891 Rimbaud left Harar. After suffering for many months
from a swelling in his right leg, the inflammation got worse, and in a
Marseilles hospital, his leg was amputated.
disasters. With his sister Isabelle, at his side. Rimbaud's doctors diagnosed the
disease as carcinoma, but it may have been syphilis in its tertiary stage. Arthur Rimbaud died on November 10, 1891. Ten years later in
Charleville, a monument in his memory was erected in the Square de la
Gare.
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