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Reading the poem entitled Hymn to Beauty by Baudelaire, I picked up on some familiar characteristics that I myself find in some of my random writings I do in my spare time. I often think of a simple subject to focus my thoughts on; sometimes these subjects being complex but often I find at the end of my writings, they have begun with no specific subject, but something brings it all together in the end …

…makes something beautiful? Rimbaud is questioning reality. He either physically, is floating around in a boat, or is using the boat as a metaphor describing how dispositioned he is from the mundane, sober, sensibility. Both artists, have a question that they are striving to answer or at least come to peace with. Maybe I am wrong, but with what these works brought to me, this is how I would discuss the simililarities between the two.