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When it comes to poetry, who can you think of?
Charles Pierre Baudelaire, a famous French symbolist poet.
Charles Pierre Baudelaire (9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was the most famous French modernist poet of the nineteenth century, a pioneer of Symbolist poetry, and an important figure in European and American poetry, whose work The Flower of Evil is one of the most influential poetry collections of the nineteenth century.
From 1843 onwards, Baudelaire began to compose poems that would later be included in The Flower of Evil, and shortly after the publication of the collection, he was sentenced by a misdemeanor court for "obstructing public morality and morality". In 1861, Baudelaire applied to join the Académie française, but later withdrew.
Next, I will introduce you to a wave of his famous works~
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The Flowers of Evil
The Flower of Evil
Introduction:
This is a collection of poems, it is a book with logic, structure, beginning and end, and integration.
The poems in The Flower of Evil are not arranged according to the chronological order of writing, but are divided into six groups of poems according to content and theme, each with the title: "Melancholy and Ideals", "Paris Scene", "Wine", "The Flower of Evil", "Rebellion" and "Death", of which "Melancholy and Ideals" has the heaviest weight. The order of the six parts actually draws the trajectory of the conflict between melancholy and ideals.
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The works in Flowers of Evil are characterized by both romanticism, symbolism and realism. The Flower of Evil has been hailed as "a strange flower that opened up in a transitional period in which great traditions have disappeared and new traditions have not yet been formed." This collection of poems not only emphasizes the aesthetics of human and natural interaction, but also expresses the connection between human senses and everything in the world.
This is reflected in Correspondances' poem "Induction":
Nature is a temple where living pillars
Nature is a temple with living pillars
Sometimes let out confused words
From time to time, some vague voice is emitted;
Man passes through forests of symbols
Pedestrians pass by, through the symbolic forest,
Who observe it with familiar looks.
The forest showed a kind gaze at people.
Like long echoes that from afar merge
As if some long echo came from afar,
In a dark and deep unity
Mixed with each other into a vague and profound unity,
Vast as night and as clarity
As boundless as the night and as bright as the light,
Fragrances, colors and sounds respond to each other
Aroma, color, and sound are all sensing each other.
It is fresh perfumes like children's flesh
Some are as fresh as children's skin,
Soft as oboes, green as meadows
Soft as an oboe, green as a pasture,
— And others, corrupt, rich and triumphant
- others, decaying, rich, triumphant,
Having the expansion of infinite things
with the expanding power of an infinite thing,
Like amber, musk, benzoin and incense
Like amber, musk, benzoin and frankincense,
Who sing the transports of the mind and the senses
Singing spiritual and sensual ferocity.
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Reflections on Some of My Contemporaries
Reflections on Several Contemporaries
Reflections on Several Contemporaries is a collection of fifteen works written by Charles Baudelaire from 1855 to 1864 and published after his death, including "A Reform of the Académie de France", "A Review of Victor Hugo", and "The Life and Works of Edgar Allen Poe".
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Baudelaire was greatly inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's rich and grotesque imagination and calm and accurate analysis.
Baudelaire believed that Poe was a friend of his sufferings and a teacher of creative theory.
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The Spleen of Paris
The Melancholy of Paris
This book includes three works, "The Melancholy of Paris", "Artificial Paradise", and "Private Diary", and is a representative work of Baudelaire's prose poetry.
"The Melancholy of Paris", also known as "Small Prose Poems", collects 50 prose poems published by the author in various magazines one after another, and compiles them into a volume according to the author's original intention before his death. Some of these prose poems consist of fragments of character dialogue, while others are short narrative poems and descriptions of scenes.
Baudelaire was the first to treat prose poetry as an independent form and to perfect it, proposing what he considered characteristic of prose poetry: "Musical without rhythm and rhythm, quite flexible enough to adapt to the passionate movement of the soul, the dreamy ups and downs, and the convulsions of consciousness." ”
In this work, Baudelaire makes a vivid and vicious satire and sarcasm of the dirty and deformed real society, and ruthlessly lashs out at the traditional and decadent secular habits.
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Aesthetic Curiosities
Aesthetic Treasures
This book collects the most important art reviews of Baudelaire's life and introduces some of Baudelaire's reviews of works of art and events.
Baudelaire's literary career began with art criticism, with the Salon of 1845 becoming a hit and the Salon of 1846 establishing him as an authoritative art critic.
Baudelaire praised the romantic rookie Delacroix, and highly admired color and imagination.
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The Painter of Modern Life
The Painter of Modern Life
"The Painter of Modern Life" includes nine articles, including "The Painter of Modern Life" and "Martinet Exhibition".
This book deals in detail with modern aesthetics and modernity.
The Painter of Modern Life is undoubtedly Baudelaire's most profound and predictable work on modern aesthetics and modernity. It is an art criticism, a work of praise for a contemporary painter, Gunstaine Guille, which caused great controversy. It is also the cornerstone of modern art theory, and the vivid "allegories" about the concept of modernity in the text have a far-reaching impact. It is more typical Of Baudelaire prose, full of inspiration and fun.
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Artificial paradises
Artificial Paradise
The book is a collection of two articles by the author, Wine and Indian Cannabis, published in 1851, and Artificial Paradise, published in 1860.
Baudelaire describes, in extremely delicate, lyrical language, the wonderful, delicate, and dreamlike experiences that alcohol, especially Indian cannabis and opium, bring to smokers, and it feels like immersive.
Baudelaire's sometimes wonderful, sometimes chaotic, sometimes solemn intoxication is like a man-made paradise, a brilliant but false world, and the author himself is in this process of step by step to destruction.
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