The first part, "Melancholy and Ideal", describes both melancholy and ideal. Melancholy is heavy, and ideals are slim. Walking through the heavy melancholy, looking for hard-to-find ideals.
The second "Scenery of Paris" describes Paris in the poet's eyes, or Paris in his heart. This is not a beautiful city, not a bustling "garden", but a "bustling city, a city full of dreams,/ghosts pulling the sleeves of pedestrians in broad daylight!" (Seven Old People) Baudelaire pulled the vision of poetry from the romantic nature to the grotesque modern metropolis, but what people saw was a deformed and abnormal picture.
The third part, with the title of "wine", describes the poet's helplessness and sadness of "drowning his sorrows with wine" and "taking wine as pleasure".
The fourth part is "the flower of evil", and the poet turned from the illusion of drunkenness to the flower of evil.
The fifth part is "rebellion", which is aimed at God. Here, Cain and Satan are praised because they are victims and rebels. What the world wants is that its soul can "rest in peace" with Satan.
The sixth book "Death", after suffering, is full of ugliness. Death is the only destination and the only comfort. Death is the end of everything, but it is also a new beginning.
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The Flower of Evil is of epoch-making significance in the history of French poetry development, both in content and form. It created a brand-new kingdom of poetry, led poetry creation to an unprecedented situation, and showed the bright future of poetry creation. In terms of content, it introduced urban life into the poetry kingdom on a large scale for the first time, expanding the territory of the poetry country.
Baudelaire clearly pointed out that he would go deep into people's most despicable passions and boldly pick a few "flowers of evil" and present them to the world. No one is as deeply rooted in people's hearts as he is, digging in the darkest corner, thus deepening the expressive force of poetry. In art, Flowers of Evil has also made great achievements. It inherits the clarity, stability, beautiful rhyme and strict meter of classical poetry and creates a new creative method, namely symbolism.
In a famous poem "Sympathy" in "Flowers of Evil", the poet vividly describes the mutual transformation between human organs. At the same time, it also points out that everything on the material level and everything on the inner spiritual level are mutually transformed and promoted.
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