Verlaine also was a symbolist who added a great contribution to the development of symbolism. He was more concerned with mood rather than meaning, and he believed himself the most powerful of all the decadent, that was clear when he quotes “I am the empire at the end of the decadence”. Paul was imbued by the works of baudlére especially in his work “the flower of evil” that encouraged him to write, and he was also considered a decadent.
Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud as decadents reacted to the Parnassian poetry. Both of them tried to form a situation of the subject of the lyric in which they responds directly and reacted against the traditional modes of relations, either subjective or objective relations that the parnassian poetry has.
Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud as decadents reacted to the Parnassian poetry. Both of them tried to form a situation of the subject of the lyric in which they responds directly and reacted against the traditional modes of relations, either subjective or objective relations that the parnassian poetry has.