French poet. Born in Paris, he lost his father at the age of six and his mother remarried, thus forming a melancholy and lonely character. The contradiction between him and his stepfather made him take a challenging attitude towards traditional ideas and morality, strive to get rid of the shackles of class ideology and explore spiritual balance in the dreamland of lyric poetry. Baudelaire's main poems were included in the collection of poems Flowers of Evil (1857), which established the poet's important position in the history of French literature. Flowers of Evil eulogizes wine and beauty and emphasizes function. On the surface, this is the poet's tired and evasive attitude towards real life. In essence, this is a desperate rebellious attitude adopted by the poet because of his dissatisfaction with real life. He exposed the darkness of life and sang ugly things, which was an opposition and impact on traditional aesthetics. In addition, Baudelaire also wrote a collection of prose poems, Artificial Paradise (1860), Melancholy in Paris (1869), and a collection of literary criticism, romantic art and aesthetics (1868). Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil was praised and criticized differently before his death, but his influence increased day by day after his death, and a generation of symbolic poets claimed to be his successor. He is regarded as a poet who has brought great changes to western Europe's thoughts, feelings and creative methods. Baudelaire's aesthetic theory is a major turning point in the history of poetry and art. Since then, the world modernist literary movement has been surging and spreading all over the world.