This man portrayed bodies hanging from a gallows as dancers accompanied by "Sir Beelzebub"and his fiddle in his "Ballade of the Hanged".
This man portrayed bodies hanging from a gallows as dancers accompanied by "Sir Beelzebub"and his fiddle in his "Ballade of the Hanged". He wrote a letter to Paul Demeny describing theprocess by which a poet disorders all his senses in order to become a seer. One of his works containssections titled "Bad Blood" and "The Impossible" and begins "Once, if my memory serves me well".The central figure of another of his poems sees "nets where a whole Leviathan was rotting" after"gaudy Redskins" murder its (*) crew; that figure later laments its freedom and wishes to sink. He gaveup poetry for gun-running and travel at age 20 after a stormy affair with Paul Verlaine. For 10 points, namethis French poet of A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat.
This man portrayed bodies hanging from a gallows as dancers accompanied by "Sir Beelzebub"and his fiddle in his "Ballade of the Hanged".
Arthur Rimbaud [or Jean-Nicolas-Arthur Rimbaud]