Practice question · Numerical answer
At roughly what age did Rimbaud stop writing altogether?
Hints
- He had finished before most poets begin.
- Around twenty or twenty-one.
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21 (answers within ±1 count)
Why
Around 21. He produced everything — Le Bateau ivre, Une Saison en enfer, Illuminations — before that age and then gave up literature entirely for trading in Africa. Whether that silence is part of the work or merely a biographical fact is still argued.
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