Introduction to French writer Symbolist poet Han Bo

Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), French Symbolist poet. He began to write poems in Latin at the age of 15, showing his outstanding poetic talent. At the age of 17, he wrote the famous poem "The Drunken Boat". After the Franco-Prussian War broke out in 1870, the poet came to Paris, wrote poems to express his sympathy for the Paris Commune, and wrote the famous poem "The Hand of Jeanne Marie". In the middle and later stages, the poet turned to the poetic adventure process of self-exploration. Life, society, ideals, and reality reflected a dim light in the poet's spiritual world. The poet began to focus on expressing his own illusions, dreams and experiences. Especially in his later period, his poems were full of strong symbolism. At the age of 27, the talented poet immediately stopped writing and interrupted his literary career. He was keen on adventure, travel, and wandering, and once roamed Europe. His main works are: "Dedicated to Music", "Sleeper in the Valley", "Drunken Boat", "A Season in Hell" and "Aura" etc.

Han Bo is the most rebellious symbolist poet. Following Baudelaire, he, Mallarmé and Verlaine are known as the three famous symbolist poets. Han Bo developed Baudelaire's "correspondence theory" and the suggestive role of poetry. He believed that poets should be "psychics" whose task is to explore the mysterious "unknown" through the "dislocation" of feelings. His poems such as "Vowels" and "The Alchemy of Literature" vividly developed Baudelaire's "Synesthesia", while his representative works such as "The Drunken Boat" and "Dawn" use magnificent imagination and ingenious " "Synesthesia" is very popular. For a period of time, symbolist poetry was brilliant in France and influenced Europe and even the whole world: "Psychic" Han Bo invented "alchemy of words" and created "new flowers, new stars, new flesh". and new languages”.

Han Bo brought elements of surrealism to French Symbolist literature. While the Symbolists sought to discover (or decipher) the reality hidden behind everyday things, the Surrealists went a step further and required the creation of a reality beyond things through intuition and fantasy. In this sense, Han Bo is one of the more radical French symbolist poets.

Han Bo's poems are famous for their magnificent colors. In September 1871, the young Han Bo came to Paris at the invitation of Verlaine and soon became famous with his poem "Drunken Boat". In this poem, the poet compares himself to a drunken boat without a rudder and an anchor, drifting with the waves on the sea without restraint. The poetic style is strange and gorgeous, and it is a masterpiece among symbolist poems. In another famous poem "Vowels", Han Bo used five different colors to symbolize the five vowels of French, and then intertwined factors such as shape, color, smell, sound, video, and movement through specific descriptions in order to achieve Achieve the state of "synaesthesia". In addition, the prose poem "A Season in Hell" is also a rare work of genius.

Although Han Bo and Verlaine had a very close relationship and once had a same-sex affair with Verlaine, their styles were quite different. Verlaine is known for his cordial nature and harmonious music, while Han Bo is famous for his strange imagery and dreamy colors. In 1912, Rimbaud was revered as the originator of the newly emerging surrealist literature.