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What does it mean?
The poet says he bathed in the Poem of the Sea and devoured green blues.
In plain terms
I immersed myself in the sea's poem and ate the green colors.
What can you take from it?
Immersion in nature feeds the spirit.

Where it applies

  • traveling
  • writing
  • artistic experience

Putting it to work

  • immerse in nature
  • describe colors
  • consume art

Questions to consider

  • How do you take in art?
  • What do you consume?

Another view

Devouring colors is metaphorically abstract.

More from Arthur Rimbaud

  1. Plus douce qu'aux enfants la chair des pommes sures, L'eau verte penetra ma coque de sapin.

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  2. J'ai vu le soleil bas, tache d'horreurs mystiques, Illuminant de longs figements violets, Pareils a des acteurs de drames tres-antiques.

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  3. Plus leger qu'un bouchon j'ai danse sur les flots.

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