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Symbolist Poetry’s Reliance on Synesthesia Imagery

Quick fact

Arthur Rimbaud famously wrote a sonnet where vowels are assigned colors: 'A black, E white, I red, U green, O blue.' This is a classic example of synesthesia imagery in Symbolist poetry.

Why this is interesting

Imagine hearing a symphony while tasting a ripe peach—and then writing a poem that makes someone else 'taste' the music. Symbolist poets turned this sensory mash-up into a core poetic strategy.