my full name is
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud
i was born into the rural middle class of Charleville (now part of Charleville-a partement in northeastern France. As a boy i was a restless but brilliant student. By the age of fifteen, I had won many prizes and composed original verses and dialogues in Latin.In 1870 my teacher Georges Izambard becamemy first literary mentor, and my original verses in French began to improve rapidly. i frequently ran away from home and briefly joined the Paris Commune of 1871, which i portrayed in my poem "L'Orgie parisienne ou Paris se repeuple" (the Parisian orgy or Paris repopulates). had sex with drunken Communard soldiers (his poem "Le " - "The Tortured Heart" - suggests so). By then i had become an anarchist, started drinking and amused my by shocking the local bourgeois with my shabby dressing and long hair. At the same time i wrote to Izambard and Paul about my method for attaining poetical transcendence or visionary power through a "long, immense and rational derangement of all the senses" ("Les lettres du Voyant" - "The Letters of the Seer"). I returned to Paris in late September 1871 at the invitation of the eminent Parnassian poet Paul Verlaine (profoundly impressed by the reading of mys masterwork "Le bateau ivre", "The Drunken Boat"), moving briefly into Verlaine's home. Verlaine (who was bisexual), promptly fell in love with me and shortly after we became lovers, leading a dissolute vagabond-like life, rocked by absinthe and hashish taking. They scandalized the Parisian literary elite, particularly on account of the outrageous behaviour of me the archetypical enfant terrible. Throughout this period I continued to write strikingly visionary, modern verses, topping mymaster Charles Baudelaire.
ME and Verlaine's stormy homosexual relationship took us to London in 1872, when Verlaine left his wife and infant son (whom he used to mistreat badly during his alcoholic rages). In July 1873, after a particularly violent quarrel in Brussels train station, Verlaine shot me in the wrist. Fearing for my life, I called for the police. Verlaine was arrested and subjected to a humiliating medico-legal examination, following the perusal of their compromising correspondance and the accusations of Verlaine's wife about the "natureg withdrawn the com" of their friendship. The judge was merciless and, in spite of Rimbaud havinplaint, he sentenced Verlaine to two years in prison.
i returned home and in Hell) in prose, widely regarded as one of the pioneering instances of modern Symbolist writing and a description of that "("sorrowful brother"), the "vierge folle" ("mad virgin") of whom i was "poux infernal" ("the hellish husband"). In 1874 i returned to London with the poet Germain Nouveau and assembled his controversial Illuminations, which includes the first two French poems in free verse.
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