Rimbaud in Harar - Ethiopia, 1883
Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud was born in Charleville, France, in the Ardennes on the 20 of October 1854 and died in Marseille on the 10 of November 1891, at the age of 37.
He wrote most of his works during his teens, which prompted Victor Hugo, the famous french writer, to call him “an infant Shakespeare”.
Rimbaud was the second of five children of a french army captain and his wife. He studied in the Collegé de Charleville, where he began showing his poetic aptitudes. As he grew up, Rimbaud became more rebellious, leading to altercations with his mother and running away from home.
In 1871, he met the poet Paul Verlaine, and the two became lovers for 4 years. Their relationship became very stormy, and after 4 years, humiliations, misery and two years in jail, Rimbaud left Verlaine and poetry, leaving for six years of life abroad, in Java, Cyprus, Yemen and Ethiopia.
In 1891, Rimbaud returned to France for the treatment of what he thought was a very painful case of arthritis in his right knee. Following an amputation in Marseille, the final diagnosis came out as cancer. Rimbaud suffered a lot, and died on on the 10 of November 1891. He was 37 years old.
His poetry influenced the Symbolist, Dadaist and Surrealist movements, not only for its various themes, but also for its inventive use of form and language.
He also inspired artists like Pablo Picasso, Dylan Thomas, Vladimir Nabokov, Jim Morrison, Bob Dylan and Patti Smith.
By Hidalgo Socorro
Hidalgo Socorro 
how sad.