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Patris's avatar

Did Rimbaud address poems to Verlaine?

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Martin Mc Carthy's avatar

Verlaine's 'Spleen' is a very lyrical and emotional poem about a pleading lover who remains captive to a love that he has lost. I particularly like these lines that register his sense of helplessness and despair:

'Dear, with a mere a turn of your head,

My despair’s flooded back!'

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