The Seven-Year-Old Poets (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Arthur Rimbaud
- First Published: 1895
- Type of Work: Narrative
- Genres: Poetry, Narrative poetry
- Subjects: Children, Mothers, Parents and children, France or French people, Poetry or poets, Dreams, Romanticism
The Poem
“The Seven-Year-Old Poets” is a narrative poem composed of sixty-four Alexandrines (the classical French line of verse containing twelve syllables) arranged in rhymed couplets and in four loosely formed stanzas of four, twelve, fourteen, and thirty-four lines respectively. Written in 1871, when Rimbaud was sixteen, it exemplifies the poet’s unique vision of reality, one that depicts a young boy’s yearning for creative and sensual freedom through the written word.
The first stanza expresses the child’s relief as his Bible lesson comes to an end, the...
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