The intoxication of Rimbaud’s « Bateau ivre » is legible in the poem’s moments of narrative incoherence and improbabilities. Yet this intoxication is political in nature, as a sociocritical approach to the poem’s inscription of the Commune as a problem of reference demonstrates. Neither symbol of the defeated Commune nor allegorical figure of the defeated communards, Rimbaud’s drunken boat - like Verne’s Nautilus - traverses an unsettled and unsettling oceanic space: that of history.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques