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Rhapsodies is a collection of poems by 19th-century French poet Petrus Borel, exploring themes of revolution, injustice, love, and suffering through vivid and fiery verse.
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Rhapsodies is a collection of poems by 19th-century French poet Petrus Borel, exploring themes of revolution, injustice, love, and suffering through vivid and fiery verse.
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'Borel was the sun, ' said Théophile Gautier, 'who could resist him?' Indeed, who? A lycanthrope, necrophile, absurd revolutionary, Paris dandy with a scented beard, flamboyant sufferer: a man with no grave and no memorial. His once celebrated red mouth opened briefly 'like an exotic flower' to complain of injustice and bourgeois vulgarity; of his frustration in love and reputation; of poverty and blighted fate. Then he withered in the minor officialdom of Algeria, where he died because he would...
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Romance & sex
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Poetic references to necrophilia and romantic excess; implied but not graphically detailed.
Violence & gore
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Imagery of daggers, cutlasses, danger, and suffering; violent themes in revolutionary contexts.
Profanity
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Mild strong language in poetic expressions of gall and injustice.
Substance use
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No substance use depicted.
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No LGBTQIA+ representation.
Religious content
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No religious themes present.
Magic & witchcraft
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No evidence found in available sources.
Occult / demonology
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Occult elements including lycanthropy and necrophilic imagery in gothic poetry.
Political content
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Central revolutionary messaging against injustice, poverty, and bourgeois society in 19th-century France.
Self-harm / suicide
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Fleeting poetic ideation of blighted fate and suffering.
Abuse & suffering
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Themes of systemic suffering, poverty, and injustice; howls against social cruelty.
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