Lettre du voyant (English spelling)

...The emergence of Rimbaud, who would later be called the "rebel" or "villain." While he erupted with revolutionary fervor during the Paris Commune in 1871, in two private letters called the "Lettre du voyant" in May of the same year, he expressed his belief that a poet should reach the "unknown" through a methodical disturbance of all senses. Poems such as "Vowels" and "The Drunken Boat," which were based on this awareness, are representative masterpieces of his early period, and already fully show the characteristic of his poetry, which is the establishment of an objective image of all things captured by a rapidly moving viewpoint.

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…後世のいう〈反抗者〉または〈無頼漢〉ランボーの出現である。71年のパリ･コミューンに際しては革命的情熱を噴出させる一方，同年5月の〈見者の手紙Lettre du voyant〉と呼ばれる2通の私信で，独自の詩的覚醒を告げる信念を表明，詩人はあらゆる感覚の方法的攪乱により〈未知〉に到達すべきであるとした。この自覚に立つ《母音》《酔いどれ船》などの詩編は初期の代表的傑作で，急速に移動する視点がとらえた万象の客観的イメージの定着という，彼の詩の特性がすでに十分に現れている。…

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