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www.mag4.net/Rimbaud/poesies/Idol.html

This Rimbaud... It really is the most enjoyable poem I've ever read. A perfect description. inb4 OP is a fag etc.
/lit/'s opinion on Rimbaud? Also, cool gif.

>> No.1958707

>that background
>that font

Rimbaud would shit if he found out about this.

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>>1958700

>> No.1958764

>>1958707
Formatting aside, Truman, you surely would appreciate such descriptive and enjoyable verse.

>> No.1958779

this poem is amazing

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>>1958764

Of course, it's perfect.

As you may have deduced, the ass is my forté.

>> No.1958794 [DELETED] 

hold on
is he talking about a vagina?

>> No.1958797 [DELETED] 

oh an asshole
still what the fuck

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>>1958780
As you may have deduced, anal sex with men is my forté.

>> No.1958808

What. The. Fuck.
I mean, seriously. I would have gone for a regular poem about sex with a woman, but anal sex? What the shit?

>> No.1958813

>>1958808
Rimbaud's a homosexual.

>> No.1958815

>>1958797
Do you not wish for the froth of love to leave a residue upon your lips ?

>> No.1958816

>>1958813
Figures.

>> No.1958826

First of all, I'm the anon wot recommended "Les Stupra" in that thread about queer literature a few hours ago. So don't pretend like you just discovered this all on your own. Also, it's a collaborative work. This octave of the sonnet is by Paul Verlaine. The sestet is by Rimbaud.

There is a very good translation of the sonnet by Craig Raine, which was first printed in his collection The Onion: Memory.

You do realize there is a movie where Leonardo di Caprio plays Rimbaud and has a gay sex scene? The good news is he gets naked. The bad news is he's topping Professor Lupin.

But if you're interested in more reading.....well, John Ashbery's new translation of Rimbaud is amazing. Graham Robb's biography is basically definitive (although Enid Starkie is still in print, she just is a little more coy about the buttsecks).

And shit /lit/ get it together. It's not ONLY a poem about anal sex. It's a poem about rimming. At least the bit that Rimbaud wrote.

>> No.1958834

Is it just me or is Rimaud slightly egomaniacal..

>> No.1958836

Translated poetry.

>> No.1958838

>>1958826
I didn't take it from you. I was reading some Rimbaud and stumbled upon this. I haven't been to /lit/ in a while.

Yes, Total Eclipse.

>> No.1958982

bump

>> No.1959667

i enjoyed this poem but rimbaud is shit.