Stéphane Mallarmé Stéphane Mallarmé, a French poet, became one of the most important masters of French symbolism, a nineteenth-century movement in poetry that stressed impressions and moods rather than descriptions of reality (Online). The poetry of Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, and others strongly affected Mallarmé’s writing (Online). He used symbolism to represent human emotions to make his poems unclear, thus avoiding direct communication with his readers (Online & World Book 110,111). Mallarmé …showed first 75 words of 1381 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1381 total…poem makes the reader ponder about the evolution of the soul. The poem is good and lasting because of its meaning which is to take advantage of what is here now.  Bibliography Works Cited Chiari, Joseph. Symbolism from Poe to Mallarmé. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1956, p.143. “Mallarmé, Stéphane.” Collier’s Encyclopedia. Volume 15. “Mallarmé, Stéphane.” Encyclopedia Americana. Volume 18. pp. 177-178. “Mallarmé, Stéphane.” The World Book Encyclopedia. Volume 13, pp. 110-111. Online. Internet. March 17, 1999.