Rimbaud called himself the “fire-stealer” in the letter that he addressed to Paul Démeny on May 15, 1871. This Promethean image haunts his texts. The return to antiquity is for him, as for Maurice de Guérin, a projection into the future, a future that he wanted to be illuminated by the light of poetry, by the fire that the new poet must snatch from the god, whichever one that may be, and from the vainglorious mighty. To recreate the world poetically, to be a new demiurge... such was his ambition.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques