LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MODERN POETRY AND POETICS
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French Symbolist poetry is full of exaggerated metaphors.
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French Symbolist poetry has narrative clarity.
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French Symbolist poetry is shocking.
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French Symbolist poetry is formally experimental.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Like the Decadents, their contemporaries in late nineteenth-century French literature, the Symbolist poets rejected conventional religious, social, and moral values, embracing instead a world-negating escapism, the lure of exoticism, and an aggressive individualism.
Detailed explanation-2: -This intellectual movement would in turn influence the arts and give rise to the artistic movement itself. Defining characteristics of Symbolist art include the use of esoteric imagery, suggestion of the senses, religion, mysticism, sin, and love. Common themes include Biblical stories, mythology, and legend.
Detailed explanation-3: -A group of late 19th-century French writers, including Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé, who favored dreams, visions, and the associative powers of the imagination in their poetry.
Detailed explanation-4: -Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realism.