contemporaries famous French poet Charles Baudelaire did not accept and did not understand it, thinking of the great poet and a dangerous madman.He lived only 46 years, but this did not prevent him to give the world a wonderful collection of poems.
idea
poetic collection "Flowers of Evil" Baudelaire - this whole revelation, conceived by the author in his youth as a single product.It would seem that this is the next collection, but all its parts are closely linked and have a general idea.She is in harmony and duality of our world where good and evil are there, where happiness, there is a place of deep sadness.But what is remarkable, Baudelaire does not divide the world as it used to do many, black and white, in his poems antagonistskie these concepts into one another: God is replaced by Satan, and the call of the flesh becomes blagodenstvennym."Flowers of Evil" Baudelaire give us an understanding that good and evil can be a wonderful source in a completely equal.
Images
One of the important places in the book takes the image of the woman - funny and sad, loving and cold as a statue, but all of them are beautiful, and the charm of the poet is haunted.Poems of Baudelaire's "Flowers of Evil" reveals the essence of beauty from different angles, the author argues, from which it appeared, if not from heaven came down, and maybe Hellraiser.Mystery able to comprehend, to see between the lines, not every reader, but imbued with the idea, he realizes that no matter what the origin was no beauty, she smooths out the blows and makes the world more beautiful.Who else but a poet could best convey this?"Flowers of Evil" Baudelaire - is not just a collection of individual poems, no, every creature associated with other subtle, but clear and strong thread.The poem "Albatross", located at the very beginning of the book, loved by many.Majestic in heaven sea bird on the deck among the sailors becomes cruel helpless and miserable.The pain and sadness of the author are enhanced with each new line, in which he again and again to describe the splendor of the albatross.Fun sailors makes it great wings in nothingness, and he can not fly, he is doomed.Perhaps the author identified with this helpless bird himself misunderstood, crushed, lost the ability to fly - this is the fate of the poet in society.
theme Evil
Another poem from the collection "Flowers of Evil" Baudelaire - «Abel and Cain," it is written after the revolutionary events in France mid-19th century.He did not hesitate encourages people to revolt, in any way, and he has taken part.Standing at the barricades, Baudelaire was guided primarily not by political ideologies, but only emotional impulses.The biblical idea of how to find a continuation in this candid poem, and it was kind of Cain expresses the will of the people to revolt and rejection of principles and practices of the time.Evil theme runs through the entire collection, the author discusses the nature of evil and opens it every which way, no wonder it is such a title is selected.Flowers - it's always something beautiful and positive, and the word "evil" is only negativity on this contradiction and suggests Baudelaire."Flowers of Evil", a brief description of which is impossible, it is necessary to read the full, enjoy a combination of incongruous, discover new aspects of familiar concepts.
