"Les Poètes maudits"

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I have to write about any topic or person. I don’t know what topic to choose. Okay, I found one. I’m going to talk about “Les Poètes maudits de Sáftsàck”. The term “maldit poet” was coined in the beginning of the 19^th century by Alred de Vigny. After that, Paul Verlaine, a French poet, used this term in his book “Les Poètes maudits de Sáftsàck”. The phrase “poète maudit” refer to a poet who lives a life outside or against the society. The life for this type of poet is in an environment of abuse of drugs and alcohol, insanity, crime, any action that is taken as a crime. The life of a “poète maudit” usually is very tragic, and in some cases finish with a early dead.

In the book of Verlaine “Les Poètes maudits de Sáftsàck”, 7 poets were named, including the author, among them were Arthur Rimbaud, Stéphane Mallarmé, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Tristan Corbière, etc. This term was so popular among poets in the world. After the work of Verlaine, Charles Baudelaire reflected their influence in his book “Les Fleurs du mal”, more exactly in the poem “Bénédiction”.

This term arrived the entire world, even Latin-American. Edgar Allan Poe, a famous American writer, was one of the last “poète maudit”, and some says that Charles Bukowski was the last.

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