Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Travel + Writer = Travel writer

   The Drunken Boat


      hands on all available exploration literature. When a story touches you, dissect it and find out why.
     Arthur Rimbaud was a French national treasure, a fascinating poet that lived during the second half of the XIX century. Rimbaud lived an extraordinary life as a traveler. As a young man the French poet composed a most phenomenal prose poem by the name of “The Drunken Boat” a poem full of amazing color and intoxicating views. In it Rimbaud used his imagination to present landscapes in a mesmerizing fashion that enhances the way the reader perceives nature's godliness. However, Rimbaud created his grand voyage expositions before stepping a single foot in a boat. The poet had to find inspiration from somewhere, from exploration literature perhaps. The amazingly flowery descriptions Rimbaud provided do not just convert from light and morph into ripe emotion ready to tantalize tourist's taste buds without experiencing the world and forced to evolve. In a more simple phrase, he was inspired. However, the real question should be, where did his inspiration come from? Was it a muse, a man, or a woman?

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