At one point, the poet records from memory several earlier poems like "Hunger" and "A Song from the Highest Tower" that feature what many critics believe to be intentional inaccuracies.
At one point, the poet records from memory several earlier poems like "Hunger" and "A Song from the Highest Tower" that feature what many critics believe to be intentional inaccuracies. It opens with the poet remembering when his "life was a banquet where every heart revealed itself". Later, he exclaims "I invented the color of the vowels" in the section "Alchemy of the Word", one of two sections entitled "Delirium", the first of which is a confession by a character believed to represent Paul Verlaine. For 10 points - what is this prose poem, the last major work by Arthur Rimbaud?
At one point, the poet records from memory several earlier poems like "Hunger" and "A Song from the Highest Tower" that feature what many critics believe to be intentional inaccuracies.
A Season in Hell or Une Saison en enfer