Kategorie: Poems
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When Scents Intermingle with Sounds
Poems from Charles Baudelaires Collection of Poetry Les Fleurs du mal/6 For Baudelaire, the path to harmony – in an external and internal, natural and cultural, existential and social sense – leads through the realm of imagination. Its ability to connect seemingly incompatible things and to reconcile opposites is considered…
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The Fleurs du mal as Flowers of the Night
Poems from Charles Baudelaires Collection of Poetry Les Fleurs du mal/5 With his understanding of poetry, Charles Baudelaire stands on the „night side“ of life in a double sense: he is a social outsider and draws on the world of dreams and visions for expression in his poetry. The „Idea…
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The Scent of Eternity
Poems from Charles Baudelaires Collection of Poetry Les Fleurs du mal/4 Charles Baudelaire’s poetic flower garden exudes a great multitude of fragrances. The most exquisite of them enable us to achieve what Baudelaire regarded as the most noble goal of his poetry: they allow us to „catch a glimpse of…
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Evil as Part of Human Nature
Poems from Charles Baudelaires Collection of Poetry Les Fleurs du mal/3 A Different View of Evil In part 2 of the series with poems from Baudelaire’s Fleurs du mal, it was emphasised that the meaning of „le mal“ cannot be reduced to „evil“. It is true that there are some…
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The Fleurs du mal – Flowers of Evil?
Poems from Charles Baudelaires Collection of Poetry Les Fleurs du mal/2 Les Fleurs du mal, Charles Baudelaire’s famous collection of poems, is usually translated as „The Flowers of Evil“. However, the meaning of „le mal“ is far more complex – Baudelaire’s poetic flowers do not exclusively arise from „evil“. The…
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Charles Baudelaire’s poem L’Ennemi (The Enemy)
First Part of a Series with Poems from Charles Baudelaires Collection of Poetry Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil) The life of the French poet Charles Baudelaire was marked by numerous vicissitudes, some of which were already inherent in his difficult youth. This is also evident in his…
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