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Paul Verlaine
The Aries sign of the Western Zodiac
Paul Marie Verlaine (March 30, 1844 – January 8, 1896)
French poet. He gained some notice with the Parnassian poetry of Poèmes saturniens (1866) and Fêtes galantes (1869) and became a figure in the bohemian literary world of Paris. Verlaine's turbulent marriage broke up as a result of his liaison with his young protégé, Arthur Rimbaud. The two poets traveled in Belgium and England; their relationship ended in tragedy when Verlaine shot and wounded Rimbaud and was imprisoned in Belgium for two years. In prison he was brought back to the Catholic faith of his childhood and wrote some noble religious poetry that appeared in Sagesse (1881). From that time also dates his Romances sans paroles (1874), which shows Verlaine as one of the first of the symbolists. The sensitive appreciation of the common incidents and sights of life and the haunting and simple music of his verse, combined with the melancholy and unreal disillusion of the decadents, distinguish his poetry. More striking, however, is the candor of Verlaine himself. Through the degrading incidents of his later life, which was marked by drunkenness, poverty, and debauchery, he preserved his honesty and inverted naïveté. Jadis et Naguère (1884) and Parallèlement (1889) were perhaps the best of his later volumes of poetry. Of his prose works the only one of importance is Les Poètes maudits (1884), sketches of his fellow symbolists, particularly Mallarmé and Rimbaud.
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he Twelve-Month Western Zodiac Cycle:
Aries March 21 - April 20
Taurus April 21 - May 20, 21
Gemini May 21, 22 - June 21
Cancer June 22 - July 22
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Leo July 23 - August 22, 23
Virgo August 23, 24 - September 22, 23
Libra September 23, 24 - October 22, 23
Scorpio October 23, 24 - November 22
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Sagittarius November 23 - December 21, 22
Capricorn December 22, 23 - January 20
Aquarius January 21 - February 19
Pisces February 20 - March 20
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