Asleep in the Valley | Arthur Rimbaud | War Attitude | facexor

Question: How is Rimbaud's attitude towards war, expressed in the poem 'Asleep in the Valley?

Answer:  The poem, “Asleep in the valley” which is written by Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud, undoubtedly a war poem. In the poem, he expresses the futility of war. He has the first battle experience and has expressed the horrors of war. Initially, a young soldier was found sleeping in a beautiful sunlit valley. However, at the end of the poem, an intimate point is revealed that the soldier has gunshot wounds. The soldier has two red holes on his body.  He is the victim of war. He will never wake up again. The young life is unnaturally destroyed by war-monger. The poem declares the futility of fighting with the contrasts of life and nature. The inevitability of a deadly death battle and the poem ridicules the horrific devastation that a soldier experiences in battle. Inhumanely the soldier was killed in battle.