The Drunken Boat
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The Drunken Boat is a visionary, symbolist poem by Arthur Rimbaud that depicts a boat’s hallucinatory voyage as a metaphor for poetic rebellion and spiritual exploration.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Drunken Boat canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3463490 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Drunken Boat Context triple: [Arthur Rimbaud, notableWork, The Drunken Boat]
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A.
Les Contemplations
Les Contemplations is a major 1856 poetry collection by Victor Hugo that reflects on memory, love, loss, and spiritual meditation, often seen as one of his greatest lyrical works.
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B.
The Waste Land
The Waste Land is a landmark modernist poem by T. S. Eliot that portrays the spiritual desolation and fragmentation of post–World War I Western society through a dense collage of voices, allusions, and shifting perspectives.
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C.
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge is a modernist, semi-autobiographical novel presented as the fragmented diary of a young poet confronting urban alienation, memory, and the nature of existence.
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D.
Counter-Attack and Other Poems
Counter-Attack and Other Poems is a 1918 collection of anti-war poetry by Siegfried Sassoon that vividly depicts the horrors and futility of trench warfare in World War I.
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E.
Des Imagistes
Des Imagistes is a landmark 1914 poetry anthology edited by Ezra Pound that introduced and defined the principles of the Imagist movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Drunken Boat Target entity description: The Drunken Boat is a visionary, symbolist poem by Arthur Rimbaud that depicts a boat’s hallucinatory voyage as a metaphor for poetic rebellion and spiritual exploration.
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A.
Les Contemplations
Les Contemplations is a major 1856 poetry collection by Victor Hugo that reflects on memory, love, loss, and spiritual meditation, often seen as one of his greatest lyrical works.
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B.
The Waste Land
The Waste Land is a landmark modernist poem by T. S. Eliot that portrays the spiritual desolation and fragmentation of post–World War I Western society through a dense collage of voices, allusions, and shifting perspectives.
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C.
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge is a modernist, semi-autobiographical novel presented as the fragmented diary of a young poet confronting urban alienation, memory, and the nature of existence.
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D.
Counter-Attack and Other Poems
Counter-Attack and Other Poems is a 1918 collection of anti-war poetry by Siegfried Sassoon that vividly depicts the horrors and futility of trench warfare in World War I.
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E.
Des Imagistes
Des Imagistes is a landmark 1914 poetry anthology edited by Ezra Pound that introduced and defined the principles of the Imagist movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French poem
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poem ⓘ symbolist poem ⓘ |
| author | Arthur Rimbaud ⓘ |
| authorAgeAtComposition | 16 ⓘ |
| centralMetaphor | hallucinatory voyage ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
disillusionment
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freedom and escape ⓘ loss of innocence ⓘ poetic rebellion ⓘ spiritual exploration ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| criticalReputation |
landmark of Symbolist poetry
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major work of Arthur Rimbaud ⓘ |
| dateWritten | 1871 ⓘ |
| firstPublication | 1871 ⓘ |
| firstPublicationContext | Paris literary press ⓘ |
| form | lyric poem ⓘ |
| genre | Symbolism ⓘ |
| hasEnglishTitle | The Drunken Boat ⓘ |
| influenced |
French Symbolist poets
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linked to:
Symbolist poets
Modernist poetry ⓘ Surrealism ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Charles Baudelaire
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Romanticism ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
Modernism precursor
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Symbolism ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 19th-century French literature ⓘ |
| motif |
cosmic imagery
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hallucination and vision ⓘ nature imagery ⓘ sea voyage ⓘ shipwreck ⓘ |
| narrativeVoice | first person ⓘ |
| narrator | personified boat ⓘ |
| numberOfLines | 100 ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Le Bateau ivre ⓘ |
| rhymeScheme | regular end-rhyme ⓘ |
| setting | imaginary seas ⓘ |
| style |
imagistic
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surreal ⓘ visionary ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
artistic freedom
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psychic voyage ⓘ the poet ⓘ |
| verseForm | alexandrine ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Subject: The Drunken Boat Description of subject: The Drunken Boat is a visionary, symbolist poem by Arthur Rimbaud that depicts a boat’s hallucinatory voyage as a metaphor for poetic rebellion and spiritual exploration.
Referenced by (5)
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