Several of the obscure images found in this poem, including "yellow-eyed birds", "electric moons", and "giant serpents devoured by bedbugs", would inspire paintings by artists like Salvador Dali.
Several of the obscure images found in this poem, including "yellow-eyed birds", "electric moons", and "giant serpents devoured by bedbugs", would inspire paintings by artists like Salvador Dali. Composed of one-hundred lines divided into twenty-five quatrains, it describes the magical liberation of the title object from the control of its haulers and the burdens of commerce, its exhilaration when faced with strange new lands and experiences, and its final weariness and longing for death. FTP, name this 1871 Symbolist masterpiece that served as a showcase for the talents of a young Arthur Rimbaud (ram-BO).
Several of the obscure images found in this poem, including "yellow-eyed birds", "electric moons", and "giant serpents devoured by bedbugs", would inspire paintings by artists like Salvador Dali.
The Drunken Boat (or Le Bateau ivre)