Rimbaud, then aged 16, wrote the poem in the summer of 1871 at his childhood home in Charleville in Northern France.
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The Pogues recorded a song called "Drunken Boat" for their 1993 album Waiting for Herb.
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Ship of fools, an allegory in western art depicting a ship of madmen, who sail oblivious of their destination.
and in 2012 the Tegen-Beeld foundation collaborated with the International Society of Friends of Rimbaud to paint a poem by Arthur Rimbaud, "Le Bateau ivre", on a government building in the 6th arrondissement of Paris.