This author of a sonnet assigning colors to the vowels abandoned poetry at age 20 after ending his chaotic relationship with Paul Verlaine.
One of this man's poems compares the title phenomenon to "human toil", which "lights up my abyss from time to time". Another of his poems compares the subjects to "the peace of pastures dotted with animals", a "sublime Trumpet full of strange piercing sounds", "lances of glaciers", and a "velvety jacket of brilliant flies". He exclaims "De profundis Domine, what a creature I am!" and laments his Gallic eye in "Bad Blood", a section of a longer poem. Another of his speakers describes "yellow-blue awakenings of singing phosphorus" and (*) "nets where a whole Leviathan rots" after relating how "Redskins" killed its crew. This author of a sonnet assigning colors to the vowels abandoned poetry at age 20 after ending his chaotic relationship with Paul Verlaine. For 10 points, identify this French poet of "A Season in Hell" and "The Drunken Boat".
One of this man's poems compares the title phenomenon to "human toil", which "lights up my abyss from time to time".
Arthur Rimbaud [or Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud]