In Baudelaire, French poetry finally came out of France. Flowers of Evil is read by people all over the world, and no poet can arouse people's enthusiasm more than Baudelaire. -French symbolist poet Valerie In the history of French literature in the19th century, there is only one poet who can keep pace with Hugo, that is, Charles Baudelaire, a great poet contemporary with Hugo. He is not only an important poet, but also a literary critic. He has the courage to create his own artistic world in the glorious era of romantic literature. His works inherited the lingering thoughts of romanticism and initiated the symbolism. His influence spread all over the schools of modern western poetry, and T S Eliot regarded him as "a model of all modern national poets".
Flowers of Evil is a masterpiece that established Baudelaire's literary position, and it is also a controversial work. Because of its curse of "evil" in the real society and its excavation of people's hearts, it has been fiercely attacked by French defenders, but it has also been warmly praised by many people of insight. Hugo called the poem "Flowers of Evil" "shining in the sky like a star". On June 1 978165438+1October1Sunday, French Weekly Express (No.1426) published a survey report on reading in France. According to the report, 46% of readers like to read Baudelaire's works, the so-called "Baudelaire's works". This kind of investigation report appears almost every year, and Baudelaire and his Flowers of Evil are almost always among the best. With the passage of time, more and more people understand the profound content and the epoch-making significance of the novel art form of Flowers of Evil, and put it into the ranks of world literary classics.
Charles Baudelaire, a great French poet and critic, made up his mind to "be a great poet, not Lamartin, Hugo or Miao Sai" when he was young. He longed to create his own glory and finally realized it. His collection of poems "Flowers of Evil" is an epoch-making and immortal work, which always shines with unique light in the history of world literature development. In this collection of poems, the poet devoted his "all heart, all warmth and all faith", showing the world all the feelings of a lonely, melancholy, poor, decadent and morbid poet who failed in his pursuit of light, happiness and ideals. Hugo said, "The author of the flower of evil has created a new chill."