Autoscopy of the Rimbaud constellation

The anticipated intuition of a logic at work in the life and work of Arthur Rimbaud seems to be present in his multiple-soul autoscopy in Les Poètes de sept ans, a poem written when he was fifteen and a half years old. The poem introduces to three Rimbauds that coexist in the seven-year-old child, meticulously described in the semblances of the diurnal child, corresponding to the expectations of his Mother, the nocturnal child, the pleasure-driven-creature, and of the visionary child, projected into his own imaginary space. The Rimbaud constellation is the poet’s hermeneutical key for reading his work and life.