Poem (Rimbaud?) about young soldiers' blood in summer fields

June 29, 2014 12:27 PM

I read this poem years ago, and I'm pretty sure it's by Rimbaud, but I can't find it on Google. I think it starts out by describing a beautiful summer landscape, perhaps some wheat fields in France, and then it turns darker and describes dead young WW1 soldiers who lie there bleeding. Which poem is this?
posted by mbrock to Society & Culture (6 answers total)

Rimbaud died long before WW1.

Are you sure you're not thinking of In Flanders Field?
posted by dotgirl at 12:34 PM on June 29, 2014

Response by poster: Eh, yeah, of course... Sorry, no, that's not it. It's probably not about WW1. :)
posted by mbrock at 12:37 PM on June 29, 2014

If it wasn't that one, it was probably something by Wilfred Owen.
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 12:37 PM on June 29, 2014

Best answer: Is it Le Dormeur du Val by Rimbaud? We just read this one in my class at the Alliance Française a couple of weeks ago.
posted by matildaben at 12:42 PM on June 29, 2014 [4 favorites]

Best answer: It's not WWI, and it is Rimbaud: Le Dormeur du Val
posted by dizziest at 12:42 PM on June 29, 2014

Response by poster: Exactly! Thanks, I knew I could count on the handsome, well-read wits of Ask MeFi!
posted by mbrock at 12:53 PM on June 29, 2014