Reading the poem entitled Hymn to Beauty by Baudelaire, I picked up on some familiar characteristics that I myself find in some of my random writings I do in my spare time. I often think of a simple subject to focus my thoughts on; sometimes these subjects being complex but often I find at the end of my writings, they have begun with no specific subject, but something brings it all together in the end …showed first 75 words of 1160 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1160 total…makes something beautiful? Rimbaud is questioning reality. He either physically, is floating around in a boat, or is using the boat as a metaphor describing how dispositioned he is from the mundane, sober, sensibility. Both artists, have a question that they are striving to answer or at least come to peace with. Maybe I am wrong, but with what these works brought to me, this is how I would discuss the simililarities between the two.