frlit1-8, Exercise 2: The poet as seer

Model answer:

In letters of 1871 Rimbaud described the poet as a seer who must make himself so through a long, deliberate disordering of the senses, and wrote that "I" is someone else. It mattered because it treated the self as something made, not given, and the poet's task as seeing differently rather than describing, an idea that shaped later movements such as Symbolism and Surrealism.

Check the wording of the letters against a reliable edition.