THE ANATOMY OF PROSE POETRY IN CHARLES BAUDELAIRE’S PARIS SPLEEN AND ARTHUR RIMBAUD ILLUMINATIONS.

ABSTRACT

This essay examines the anatomy of prose poetry in Charles Baudelaire’s Paris Spleen and Arthur Rimbaud’s Illuminations to demonstrate the inherent poetic devices portrayed through the capacity of prose poetry in a bid to appreciate beauty and creativity replicated in both prose poems. The approaches deployed are formalism and qualitative method of data collection. Different definitions of terms from different authors are employed to connotatively and denotatively explain the various devices which are majorly prominent in literary works. It is observed that the prose poems are not in lineation but in sentence form and the words are highly poetical. The words are reflective of their inherent meanings. Hence, the beauty of the prose poems stares from both the prosaic construction of the sentence and the poetic use of words.