Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891)
When Arthur Rimbaud wrote his Bateau Îvre, he was just an adolescent who
started to write, but he managed to get the best of poems
The Drunken Boat
As I was floating down unconcerned Rivers
I no longer felt myself steered by the haulers:
Gaudy Redskins had taken them for targets
Nailing them naked to coloured stakes.
I cared nothing for all my crews,
Carrying Flemish wheat or English cottons.
When, along with my haulers those uproars were done with
The Rivers let me sail downstream where I pleased.
Le Bateau ivre
Comme je descendais des Fleuves impassibles,
Je ne me sentis plus guidé par les haleurs :
Des Peaux-Rouges criards les avaient pris pour cibles
Les ayant cloués nus aux poteaux de couleurs.
J'étais insoucieux de tous les équipages,
Porteur de blés flamands ou de cotons anglais.
Quand avec mes haleurs ont fini ces tapages
Les Fleuves m'ont laissé descendre où je voulais.
He was seventeen and yet felt he could feel like a boat, at mercy of the water of
many rivers. In quite a similar way, Robert Louis Stevenson was twenty-one
when he felt the call of the sea of life towards his decision to start writing,
and though he would become a novelist, he wrote:
Say not of me that weakly I declined
The labours of my sires, and fled the sea,
The towers we founded and the lamps we lit,
But rather say: In the afternoon of time
A strenuous family dusted from its hands
The sand of granite, and beholding far
Along the sounding coast its pyramids
And tall memorials catch the dying sun,
Smiled well content, and to this childish task
Around the fire addressed its evening hours.
Perhaps some teenagers and young people might find useful to write
about what they feel their river or sea in life may be. Writing
in English requires learning a few words, a few verb tenses or
finite verb forms; a few non-finite or non-tense verb forms, such as
infinitives, gerunds or infinitives without ‘to’. They can write about
what they want to study or what they don’t mind doing; about what they
would like to read or see; whether they would rather travel or had better
stay at home... To start with, could you write about
What kinds of problems do teenagers go through?
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