Life and creativity of Paul Verlaine

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Paul Verlaine is known as a poet of the nuances, a master of sophisticated verbal lights. He prefers the verses with an odd number of steps, the axonics, and the landscapes dominated by overflowing colors. The greatest success of this ancestor of symbolism in French poetry is his collection of poems-impressions "Romance without words." In the early stages of his work, when this poet lends himself to the self-effacing virtuosity of the poet-parnists, or is embraced by the lewdness of the late romantics, the results are desperate, but when devoted to bold stylistic experiments, Verlaine astonishes his contemporaries with a number of undeniable artistic achievements. Also, his moral engagements in his life are staggeringly controversial. As a young man, when influenced by the passion for Mathilde Motte, he is convinced that happiness is only achievable within the marriage union. Later, retreating from the temptation to live his scandalous homosexual relationship with the much younger Rembaud, he finds himself in jail, and then, with an astounding frenzy of diligence, lends himself to his commitment to a Catholic believer.

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But his late zealous commitment to the Catholic faith does not absorb it completely. He soon resurrects his bohemian wandering, and does not cease to show his homosexual inclinations - acts that at that time were perceived as scandalous challenges in the context of a closed-minded society for eunuchs. This society, which fervently protects its prejudice through the two noisy court trials that arose in 1857 against the "scandalous" novel by Flaubert "Madam Bovari" and the "pornographic" lyrical collection of Baudelaire"Flowers of Evil". Verlaine's experiences accept a different expression, but they are most precisely defined by the word langueur (sickness, fatigue) that we often find in his poetry. Everything is indifferent to him; even nature and southern exotics, x are not able to bring him any joy ... He laughs at the weaknesses of the romantics who seek comfort in nature. "Naturally, nothing of yours excites me," says the poet. He laughs at the art, the man, the songs, the ancient Greek monuments, and looks with the same eyes on good and evil. "I'm tired of living," concludes the poet. He is likened to an old soldier lost in the world whose terrified soul resembles a shipwreck. " Paul-Marie Werlen was born on March 30, 1844, in the metropolis of Metz. His mother, Eliza Dee, was born in Pa-de-Calais, and his father, Nicholas-Auguste Werlen, was a Belgian born in Luxembourg. In 1851 the Verlaine family settled in Paris. From October 1853, Paul became a boarder of the Landry Institute, located on Shapsal Street in the French capital. In 1855 he enrolled at Bonaparte College, where he completed his secondary education. In April 1863, the first creation of the 19-year-old Werner, "The Honorable Man," appeared in the Revue du progelmor, literary, synantific artiste. (Magazine of Spiritual, Literary, Scientific and Artistic Progress) This publication gives him the opportunity to get acquainted with some poets from the "Parnas" circle. In the summer of that year, he spent his vacation in the town of Leccluse, where he was admirably welcomed in the home of his cousin, Elizabeth Moncrobl.

On January 1, 1865, Verlaine became a clerk at the Prefecture of the Senate. In the same year, he published new poems, among which he stood as his first ever masterpiece Nevermore. In 1866, seven pieces of younger Werlin appeared in the collection of poets of the Parnasse contemporain. In November of the same year, he announced that he had completed his first lyrical collection "Les Poimes saturniens". At the end of 1867, Pule-Malasis, the publisher of the now-famous French poet Charles Baudelaire, published the poetry poems of the young poet by Metz "The Girlfriends" in Brussels. In 1869, in the French bookshops, the second collection of the poet Verlaine "Les Ftestes galantes" appeared. In June of that same year, Paul meets the enchanting wisdom of Mathilde Motte, and for months he has been overwhelmed by his overwhelming love passion for her. In a rush of momentary fierceness against his mother in July 1869, Verlaine attempted to kill her. The next Verlaine collection, published in June 1870, follows the evolution of his love affair with Mathilde Mote, who concludes the so-called marriage union on August 11 in the Notre-Dame Church of Clementaccur.

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He was great man

true :)

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