First Communions (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Arthur Rimbaud
- First Published: 1886
- Type of Work: Narrative
- Genres: Poetry, Narrative poetry
- Subjects: Children, France or French people, Religion, Rural or country life, Farms, farmers, or farming, Christianity, Bible, biblical imagery, or biblical symbolism, Catholics or Catholic Church, Rites or ceremonies, Jesus Christ, Priests
The Poem
“First Communions” is a long poem which is cut into nine sections of one to seven stanzas. The first two sections are composed of six-line stanzas and the last seven sections of quatrains, but the rhyme scheme remains a consistent alternation of rhymes. The poem is dated July, 1871, and Arthur Rimbaud included it among the poems sent to Paul Verlaine before their first meeting in September, 1871. Like other early poems of Rimbaud, including “Seven Year Old Poets,” “The Poor in Church,” and “The Drunken Boat,” it is written in Alexandrine verse, a formal...
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