Blackcurrant River (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Arthur Rimbaud
- First Published: 1886
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Rivers or waterways, Edible plants, Birds, Peasantry or peasants, Fruit, Wind, Angels
The Poem
“Blackcurrant River” is a short poem, composed in May, 1872, that was not published by the author. It remained a manuscript until 1886, when it was published together with a number of other pieces, entirely without the poet’s knowledge. By the time “Blackcurrant River” appeared, Arthur Rimbaud had abandoned poetry and left Europe to live as a trader in Ethiopia.
The poem is composed of three rhyming six-line stanzas. In the French original, the lines are of unequal lengths, alternating eleven-syllable lines with lines of five to seven syllables. The...
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