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RE: ADSactly Literature: Charles Baudelaire: foundational writer of modern lyrics (and III)
I read Baudelaire's poems and I can't see how immoral and provocative they are. Yes, the words of a man who was fascinated by the beauty in evil, the grotesque: to see beauty in rugged subjects. Perhaps the twisting to the society of the time some of its weaknesses and false, and putting some characters in the center of the poem, made him win destroyers and enemies. This post is very well and beautifully illustrated. You close this series of Baudelaire and you have been perfect, @josemalaven. Thank you for sharing.
I appreciate your always attentive reading of my posts, @nancybriti. It is hard to understand from our epochal and cultural situation the censorship and denial to which Baudelaire's poetry was subjected in his time by certain persons, who, in addition to a fine, forced him to eliminate some poems (which were published in later editions of The Flowers of Evil). Already a poem like A Carrion is a boldness for the time. Baudelaire's positions are not at all timorous, as when we read what he says to those who judge him (now I don't have the time to quote). His very life was considered "immoral" (his consumption of hashish and opium, his public relationship with prostitutes, etc.). Baudelaire was for many of his time a sort of contemporary incarnation of Satan, even though he was a man of a profound human condition. Greetings.