Kategorie: Poems
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Seeing the World through the Eyes of Love
Ilona Lay’s Poem Song of Lovers lona Lay’s Song of Lovers revolves around the changed perception of the world arising from love. Those who love live in a different world – and thus gain a new perspective on the world of everyday life. Song of Lovers You are like an all-pervading song.Through your…
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Ilona Lay: Early Morning
Early Morning Dreamily Mother Earth lolls in her sleepunder the clumsy embrace of the winds,her shivering shell still wrappedin the garment of the clouds. Winking between the pine stairs,the eye of the moon gazes at her.On the misty ponds, water liliesnestle shyly against its wings. Glittering between the trembling leaves,the…
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The Woman: Goddess or Predator?
Poems from Charles Baudelaires Collection of Poetry Les Fleurs du mal/7 The representation of female figures in Baudelaire’s work is distinctly ambiguous. The woman can appear as a man-eating femme fatale, but also as an angel-like being who promises salvation from the valley of earthly life. An Ambivalent Image of…
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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…
