Kyle Caster									09-03

	In Rimbaud’s book illuminations, he writes about many poems.  One of these such poems is called Departure.  This poem is very short but, no matter how short it is full of meaning, and is very intriguing.  I believe that this poem is about Rimbaud being reborn in sprit.
	At first I was under the impression that this poem was about Rimbaud leaving his home town.  I thought this because  he states that he is leaving his city and that the has seen enough.  Also he says that he knows enough and that life halts.  But the last line and after really thinking about the meaning of the poem I now think that it is of his life that he was leaving not a town or that he was dying but his old life.  He talks about how life halts because he knows to much, and then he says that he has visions.  In the next line he states that he is “departure in new affection and new noise.”  So this tells me that he is now starting a new life.  That he is leaving the life that he once new.