100 A Short Career

With his expressive style and subtly mysterious imagery, Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud, had an unquestionably profound effect on modern poetry. The older Symbolist movement, headed by the poet Paul Verlaine, greatly influenced Rimbaud, drew critical attention to him. This helped place the young man at the head of the new literary movement that was stirring in France.

But Rimbaud seems to have had little desire to lead the way. In fact his life as a poet lasted only from the time he was 15 until he was 20. He spent his early twenty- sicken, wandering through Europe in search of brilliant promise of his poetry became, apparently, writing completely, Rimbaud traveled to North Africa and eventually, renouncing his art, to fulfill the theocracy, often his texts. Finally, he became manager of a trading station, exporting coffee, gum, and ivory and engaging in the profitable traffic of arms and ammunition.

Scholars are certain that Rimbaud was aware of his growing renown in Europe, which resulted from the publication, in his absence, of his poetic collection Illuminations. Enthusiasts in France wrote to him, requesting his return to head the Symbolist movement. His choice was to stay in Ethiopia.

Rimbaud died at the age of 37, having written nothing since his 20th birthday. His poetry continues to be the focus of critical attention and admiration and is still a model for poets, despite the fact that it was written by a teenage boy.

100 短暂的职业生涯

让·尼古拉·阿瑟·兰波以其富有表现力的风格和微妙神秘的意象，对现代诗歌产生了无可置疑的深远影响。由诗人保罗·魏尔伦领导的早期象征主义运动极大地影响了兰波，并使他获得了评论界的关注。这帮助这位年轻人成为了法国新兴文学运动的领军人物。

但兰波似乎没什么引领潮流的欲望。事实上，他的诗人生涯只从15岁持续到20岁。他在20岁出头时生病，在欧洲各地游荡，寻找他诗歌中曾展现的辉煌前景——显然，他完全放弃了写作，兰波前往北非，最终，他放弃了自己的艺术，去投身神权政治，经常写下自己的文字。最后，他成为了一个贸易站的经理，出口咖啡、口香糖和象牙，还从事利润丰厚的军火交易。

学者们确定，兰波知道自己在欧洲的名气越来越大——这是因为他不在时，他的诗集《灵光集》得以出版。法国的狂热支持者给他写信，请求他回来领导象征主义运动。他选择留在埃塞俄比亚。

兰波在37岁时去世，自20岁生日后就再没写过任何东西。尽管他的诗歌是一个少年写的，但它仍然是评论界关注和赞赏的焦点，并且仍是诗人的典范。