In his first collection of poetry " Saturniens poems", Verlaine says that as a poet he feels one-legged to the ground and crosses the other in a weightless world. It challenges the readers to get rid of the bodily, soul-clinging envelope, because only after they get rid of their physical burden (the body will be able to feel spiritually close to Him - the poet. The reading of " Saturniens Poems" and "Galant Feasts" could be likened to the cautious lifting of the air veils and the stubborn gaze in those shadows that ultimately kill.

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The one whom you perceived as a chained prisoner proves to have penetrated into you a hangman. It fits into your soul, enchants it and transforms it. His dedication as a reader often causes difficult recoverable damage to the easily wounded psyche of the sophisticated person. He finds himself in the position of the unscrupulous unmarried who invariably returns to his soothing opiates, seeks salvation in those "hours when he feels outside the world," whom he knows so well. It resembles that naive and exuberant loser who seeks shelter in the belief that his favorite voices coming from somewhere far away will never die. These are the voices that hang around his pillow, circling under his night lamp, his closest friend, similar to those donated by fleeting insects that scientists call ephemeris. These are the insects that live only a few hours and circle large flocks usually above the stagnant water areas where they lay their eggs and immediately die,

In "Galant Feasts," the interest of Verlaine is directed to the enjoyment of a saloon life during the reign of French King Louis XV. His interest has his preoccupations in the history of French poetry. Already in the 1950s and 1960s, the romantic Viktor Hugo and the steamer Theophil Gauthier and Theodor de Banville are particularly interested in the lush worldly entertainment that has been organized in the courtyard of this French ruler with its scandalous life maxim "After us - flood ", ie. let us now enjoy life without depriving ourselves of anything, because those who come after us do not care. In this volume we find the sophisticated aesthetic enthusiasm of the poet symbolist of Vala and Fragonar's salon painting. It is obviously the magical influence of the colorful comic-del-arte comic-adventures on the younger Verlaine , which later appears in the poem "Romance without words".

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