Escape And Rebellion:The Study Of Rimbaud And His Poems

Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was a representative poet of French Early Symbolism in the 19th century. He provided a meaningful and fancy poetry world for readers in his short poetry writing career. It would be a feasible way to study Rimbaud's loneliness and pursuit, which created his concept of poetry and his acceptance to literary tradition from his growing environment.The thesis consists of the following contents according to this idea:Introduction:Clarification of the reasons of writing this paper; hackling and evaluation of Rimbaud's existing research findings.Chapter One:Rimbaud often suffered repressed pain because of mother's severity and father's abandonment. In Rimbaud's family, his serious and hard-working mother played too much father's role, lost the tender as a mother. So Rimbaud couldn't get close to his mother, and always wanted to get away from her. Mothers and other female figures often appear in his poems, those expressed his pains and feelings. Because of his father's abandonment, Rimbaud's life is full of no father's fear, so he began to find out where his father was. The replacement of his father always appeared in his life or his poetry. It seemed that it filled the regret of losing father in a certain period or a certain background. But it became much more painful in essence. In his short life, Rimbaud began his journey to look for his father and to escape from his mother, which inspired his talent of writing poems and made readers see the bitterness and pain of the outstanding poet.Chapter Two:There are a lot of sentences with direct loneliness and treason in Rimbaud's poetry. He continually described the children in his poetry through his childhood. He showed his indifference and ruthless in the communication with friends from time to time. But in the later half of his life, He gave up poetry and went for the money. All of this came from loneliness in his deep heart. Rimbaud's loneliness is the same as modern people's. He described loneliness directly and expressed his pain by using the image of "hildren". Rimbaud was longing for happiness, but nowhere to be found. So he made it clear in his poems that poets were "psychics", "Je est un autre". He hoped to express his perception of the world by "Literary alchemy". This is a manifestation of his poetry theory, also as modern people's lonely expressions. Throughout his whole life, Rimbaud was rebelling during the escaping, and also was escaping from the rebelling. He was always in a state of spiritual drift and individual loneliness.Chapter Three:Since ancient Greece, ancient Rome and ancient Hebrew culture, the western literature has produced numerous literary masters. These masters themselves draw nourishment from the literary tradition, and then bring his literal contribution back to the literary tradition. Rimbaud himself also developed his own special feelings of literature in the traditional literal education. In his poetry, we can see a lot of classical imagery, myth, image of the prototype as well as the works of other writers. At the same time, Rimbaud's creation and innovation to poetry, and his contribution to the theory of poetry made him become a part of the literary tradition. In other words, his poetry and theory had great influence on later generations, In this sense, literal tradition is one of his necessary ways of becoming successful, as it accomplished his achievements and at the same time made him influence future generations.Conclusion:Summarizing the topic of the thesis and reaffirming the value and significance of studying Rimbaud. People still hasn't paid enough attention to Rimbaud's research in China, the information about him is badly short,and the introduction of foreign research is not much.Rimbaud's poetry is still quite novel today, beyond his time, in more than a hundred years later. It is worth our further research and discussion.