Paul Verlaine with Verlaine, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, Paul Valéry, Albert Samain and many others began to be referred to as "Symbolists." These poets would often share themes that parallel Schopenhauer's aesthetics and notions of will, fatality and unconscious forces, and used themes of sex (such as prostitutes), the city, irrational phenomena (delirium, dreams, narcotics, alcohol), and sometimes a vaguely medieval setting. In poetry, the symbolist procedure—as typified by Verlaine—was to use subtle suggestion instead of precise statement (rhetoric was banned) and to evoke moods and feelings through the magic of words and repeated sounds and the cadence of verse (musicality) and metrical innovation.
David Campos (poet) and Writing for the Performing Arts. He lives in Fresno, where he teaches English at Fresno City College and College of the Sequoias. "Furious Dusk," University of Notre Dame Press, 2015. . Video Poems at Moving Poems David Campos at Vimeo Review of Furious Dusk at Harvard Review David Campos (poet) David Campos (poet) is an American poet, writer, and producer of video poetry from California. His debut collection, "Furious Dusk", won the 2014 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize from Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at the University of Notre Dame's Institute for Latino Studies (ILS). Campos is a CantoMundo fellow.