France Baudelaire's "The Flowers of Evil"

In order to please the barbarians,

In order to be the arrogant slaves of the devil,

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We flatter you, but we insult you.

The people we love flatter the people we hate,

We actually make the weak who are despised for no reason sad,

We actually become servile The executioner,

We are extremely ignorant.

Hail to the folly of a bull's head,

We bless the glimmer of corruption

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We actually kissed the dumbfounded creature,

and expressed our infinite admiration,

Finally, to make Dizzy.

Swamped in the enthusiasm, we actually went so far as to,

seem to be proud of our poetic talent and express the excitement caused by things that are increasingly declining.

Proud priest,

Drink before you are thirsty,

Eat before you are hungry,

Blow out the lamp quickly,

Without further delay,

Let us hide in the depths of darkness.

Article introduction:

"Flowers of Evil" is a collection of poems by Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867). It is a logical, structured, and A book that has a beginning and an end, and a seamless whole.

It is a poetic art work that expresses Western mental illness and social pathology. However, morbidity is not necessarily a kind of beauty. Baudelaire's genius is precisely reflected in his ability to discover beauty in a world of evil, feel the existence of evil in the experience of beauty, and turn decay into magic through poetry.

Therefore, in a sense, "Flowers of Evil" is the art of "evil" rather than an ode to evil. Using poetry to express the ugliness of modern cities, the hypocrisy of modern civilization, and the poverty and emptiness of modern people's spiritual world is the unique contribution of "Flowers of Evil" to the poetry world, and it is also the useful inspiration provided by Baudelaire to future modernism.

With rare courage, the poet displayed all kinds of scandals and vices, and also confided the depression and distress deep in his heart. Extended information

Writing background:

At the end of the 19th century, France suffered from mental depression and confusion, anxiety, loneliness, emptiness and boredom in life, and the sinking of physical desires. The general mental state of the world.

Before and after World War I, with the intensification of various contradictions in Western capitalist society, various modern literary schools emerged one after another, reaching their climax in the 1920s. It is worth mentioning that the Revolution of 1848 was a turning point in French literature.

Critical realist literature has lost its early enthusiasm and vigor, emphasizing the pursuit of more accurate description and purely objective analysis in a "scientific spirit". In the 1880s, in France, the banner of symbolism was officially launched, and a team of symbolist writers gradually formed.

As a representative figure of modernist literature in this transitional period, Baudelaire could not bear the constraints of his family and left the family with the inheritance of one hundred thousand francs left to him by his biological father. He wanted to express his dissolute and unconventional behavior. His contempt for orthodox bourgeois life.

Baudelaire's melancholy is both innate and acquired. It is a symptom of the inner depression and restlessness of a social individual after losing its value and finding no way out. It reflects the conflict between man, the times and society.

He is melancholy, lonely, arrogant, pessimistic, rebellious, and a stubborn individualist. As a result, more anxious and guilt-ridden poems were created.

After Bonaparte's successful coup in 1851, Baudelaire's revolutionary passion soon disappeared. He was pessimistic and disappointed with the revolution, and his thoughts swung sharply to the right. This negative, pessimistic, and decadent thought was reflected in his ideological outlook and poetry creation. He hated the prevailing and hypocritical bourgeois morality, and hated the ordinary.

He even hates healthy, natural and normal things. The contradiction between ideal and reality makes him turn to the darkness in his heart. He looks for objects of aesthetic appreciation in things that are inherently antithetical to beauty and morality, even immoral things, as if he is happy to accept them as long as they do not smell of bourgeois style. However, after his ideals were disillusioned, he quickly resumed his literary life.

Since then, he has been immersed in poetry creation and embarked on a journey in the field of literature. The revolution in the field of literature fully reflected his positive attitude. Therefore, between 1852 and 1857, he published more than 20 poems. During this period, he also translated a large number of Edgar Allan Poe's poems. The latter's works emphasized melancholic emotions, and most of them were weird, tragic, and sickly and angry images.

Edgar Allan Poe's works "raised the funny to the grotesque, exaggerated the wit to mockery, and turned the bizarre into weirdness and mystery" had a great influence on Baudelaire and caused Baudelaire to break away from The personal sentimentality into which French Romanticism fell gave play to the great role of imagination in poetry.

As a result, Baudelaire developed Poe's theory and evolved Romantic poetry into Symbolist lyricism. After more than ten years of difficult creation by the poet and repeated revisions, "Flowers of Evil" was finally published in 1857.