Comparing the French Poets

Antony Bush said to me poetry is an expression of self thought. It would seem then that poetry a personal journey that a poet shares with a willing audience. This journey through the poets ego or consciousness is what allows poetry to be dynamic, enigmatic, and provocative. Poetry then isnt a way in which a poet can complain about(predicate) a broken heart or a broken family unless a way in which they can more vividly and truthfully express their surrounding circumstance and place metaphor in the place of cliche.For instance, quite of saying my heart is broken a poet can say my heart splinters into a thousand galaxies thereby relating their personal pain into a more worldly occurrence and thus making the poem accessible to their audience. The aim of poetry then is to make readers feel more human when they read furrows equivalent We flit each other, fluid affectionate, chaste, matured. You grew up with me, were a boy with me or a girl with me in which Walt Whitman expresses to his reader how he knows them and in knowing them he transcends time, gender, and space thereby making the reader a little less lonely.That is the goal of poetry, to make people feel less lonely, to have them feel as if someone else has felt their love, joy, pain and grief and thin-skinnede it through these human emotions it gives the reader hope that they too will make it through life. In Baudelaires poem One Oclock in the Morning he expresses enthusiasm for existence alone. Except, in his third sentence he says ours mean that he is not alone, his desire was to be alone with someone to be left by the world so that he can exist in a world of two. This is a common theme among poets.However, this ours is rather ambiguous and the reader is left with the impression that Baudelaire is indeed alone. He states, tyranny of the human face meaning he attributes almost everything wrong in the world to humanity and not to simply one person but all people. Is he then an exclusion? The poem does not say. The poem is however definitely pointing out how sick humanity is. The poet expresses rather masochistic tendencies in wanting to be alone (the gambling of the key in the lock) and how he wants to be bathed in darkness.With such metaphors and imagery the poet succeeds in delivering his desire to be alone. In Rimbauds poem Barbarian the poet speaks of yonder distant from humanity (again). This is shown with his allusions to humanity being a banner of bleeding meat and how being far from such barbarism, one can be at peace again. He perhaps has had his vision of heroism denied or proven false as this banner (a banner which is carried in battle) is what drives the narrator quite mad with barbaric thoughts.Perhaps Rimbaud is talking about death. His reverie in stating Oh World is a cry of a dying man, and the eyes floating confirms this argument. Rimbauds poem goes on to state something about the world and the treasures of that world that he will miss this statement is given in parenthesis, (Far from the old retreats and the old flames, that are known, that are felt) (Rimbaud line 11-12). He is making a comparison between life and this new place and how both perhaps have their positive and negatives.Rimbaud however leaves the reader in an ambiguous state as he does not seem to favor one state of being over the other (unlike Baudelaire) but merely makes exhalations about either place and his feeling toward both. In the end, perhaps it is not death he is explaining in his poem, but heartbreak a love over a woman. He states he that he sees the eyes and hair and the floating form before him so in the end, the poem is perhaps more about how being out of favor or out of someones love affects him.