Arthur Rimbaud | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 28 pages of analysis & critique of Arthur Rimbaud.

Arthur Rimbaud | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 28 pages of analysis & critique of Arthur Rimbaud.
This section contains 7,736 words
(approx. 26 pages at 300 words per page)
Buy the Critical Essay by Michael Riffaterre

SOURCE: Riffaterre, Michael. “Sylleptic Symbols: Rimbaud's ‘Memoire’.” In Nineteenth-Century French Poetry: Introductions to Close Reading, edited by Christopher Prendergast, pp. 178-98. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

In the following essay, Riffaterre contends that deciphering symbols in Rimbaud's poetry has been hampered by undue attention to incidents in the poet's life, The critic instead bases his interpretation of “Memoire” on the poem's formal features.

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L'eau claire; comme le sel des larmes d'enfance, L'assaut au soleil des blancheurs des corps de femmes; la soie, en foule et de lys pur, des oriflammes sous les murs dont quelque pucelle eut la défense; 
l'ébat des anges;—Non … le courant d'or en marche, meut ses bras, noirs, et lourds, et frais surtout, d'herbe. Elle sombre, ayant le Ciel bleu pour ciel-de-lit, appelle pour rideaux l'ombre de la colline et de l'arche. 

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Eh! l'humide carreau tend ses bouillons limpides! L'eau meuble...

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