 T. S. Eliot was influenced by the poets Jules Laforgue, Paul Valéry and Arthur Rimbaud who used the techniques of the Symbolist school, though it has also been said that 'Imagism' was the style to which both Pound and Eliot subscribed (see Pound's "Des Imagistes").Synesthesia was a prized experience; poets sought to identify and confound the separate senses of scent, sound, and colour.In Baudelaire's poem "Correspondences" (which mentions "forêts de symboles" ("forests of symbols") and is considered the touchstone of French Symbolism)