Kategorie: Poets
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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…
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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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