Obviously, inspired by the enlightening love, Verlaine is tempted to go against his strange, painfully intimate nature. Critics today often define "Good Song" as a collection of misunderstandings. Some are inclined to blame the poet for the nobility and impulsive spiritual generosity manifested in it. According to most of the connoisseurs of the life of Verlaine , it is precisely the reason for the rapid misunderstanding in his family, which soon shakes the roots of Paul's and Mathilde's happy spousal life. The greatest achievement of the poet Verlaine is undoubtedly his collection of poems-impressions "Romance without words", in which he is relentlessly dismissed from his piety as a young poet to the French lyrical tradition, which follows in his earlier collections. poems with an odd number of syllables, and does not conform to what is perceived in the classical slogan of emphasis and length of syllables, for example, deliberately ignoring the alternation of males with female rhymes in many of poems are listed in this collection.

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In the "Landscapes of Belgium" cycle, Verlaine really "twists the door of rhetoric", as he later expresses himself, and directs himself to the suggestive / delicate propelling / poetry that best captures the short-lived human moods and the nuances of fast-paced excitement. In the poem "Beams", for example, the Symbolist poet recreates in an impressively obsessive way the exaltation of the sophisticated esthete in front of Beauty. Even before creating this cycle of poems, Verlaine intends to dedicate the designed collection of his dear friend, Artur Rimbaud. This desire is entirely justified, as the influence of the inventor of a new poetic author of "One Season in Hell" (Rimbaud) is obviously the creator of the lyric-lyric cycle "Romance without words". Rimbaudpredetermines not only the selection of situations and the accompanying moods, which are delicately investigated by Verlaine in this collection. He influences his friend's imaginary strategy with his concept of poetry, which is primarily the result of his deliberately ruining "lyrical standards" of time, avant-garde intuition. Between 1873 and 1880, Verlaine worked on the Wisdom collection. Many poems have been created in the prison of Brussels (for example, verse. "Heaven over the Roof" and in the prison of the Belgian town of Mons. At that time, with an impressive zealous zeal, Verlaine rejoined the Catholic faith.

The French literary historian and critic Robert Sabatey commented on the atmosphere in the lyrical wisdom cycle: "After the French composer Rimbaud, the poet Cocteau notes that it is not easy to achieve the ease ... People love the poems written in the tradition of the Roman poets Katoul and Properies, understandable and saturated with profound content .. Verlaine admits that "after a sweet, bitter night spent in contemplation of the real presence of God" was illuminated by God's mercy. His return to the Catholic faith is sincere ... After he has written a "good song" and added to it his "romances without words", the poet gives himself to a confession inspired by the idea of ​​religious duty and the hope of renewing France "... The ingenious works in this collection, for our happiness, are few. In it, the poet compares his zealous dedication to the altar with his passionate patriotism to a Frenchman who knows a few neighboring countries ...

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