Arthur Rimbaud- poetry analysis

Understandably, a poets life and circumstances will affect his poetry, as poetry often speaks of experience or feelings generated by those experiences. The 19th Century, French poet Rimbaud, led a most unorthodox life. He was a homosexual, extremely antireligious and opinionated to say the least. His poetry is much like his life, that is, it is often unorthodox.

ARTHUR RIMBAUD 1854-1891. BIOGRAPHY

Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud was born October 24, 1854 in Chareleville, France. His father, Frederic held the rank of Captain of Infantry in the French Military, he had risen to this position from that of a mere recruit. For much of Rimbaud’s early childhood he was stationed in Northern Africa. His father had also written several unpublished military works and had translated the Koran into French, which Rimbaud would later use to study Arabic.

Rimbaud’s mother and father separated when he was six, his mother, Marie-Catherine, was left to raise his siblings and him by herself, a...