Rimbaud’s rejection of floral sentimental poems and an oppressive "flowerphilia" in both a post-romantic and post-Darwin context would lead to the roots of a productive botanical poetics in which the poet severs flowers from their traditional symbolic functions and ideologies. The beauty of Rimbaud’s flowers lies not in the colors, scents, or symbolism that they evoke, but in the strength and tenacity of plant life as it adapts itself to a modern, industrialized, and urbanized world.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques