Baudelaire's Style and Representative Works

Charles pierre baudelaire (182 1 April 9th-1867 August 3rd1), the representative work of symbolism, is the most famous French modernist poet in the 19th century and the pioneer of symbolism poetry. His masterpiece is Flowers of Evil. French poet. Born in Paris. He lost his father in his early years and his mother remarried. His stepfather, Colonel Aupic, was later promoted to general, and was appointed as the French ambassador to Spain during the Second Reich. He didn't understand Baudelaire's poetic temperament and complicated mood, and Baudelaire couldn't accept his stepfather's autocratic style and high-handed means, so Aupic became Baudelaire's most hated person. But Baudelaire has deep feelings for his mother. This abnormal family relationship will inevitably affect the poet's mental state and creative mood. Baudelaire challenged the traditional ideas and moral values of the bourgeoisie. He tried to get rid of the shackles of class ideology and explore the spiritual balance in the dream world of lyric poetry. In this sense, Baudelaire is a prodigal son of the bourgeoisie. 1848, workers in Paris revolted against the restoration dynasty. Baudelaire boarded the barricade and took part in the battle. As an adult, Baudelaire inherited his biological father's legacy, made friends with literati and artists in Paris and lived a bohemian life. His main poems were written in this contradiction and depression. There have always been different comments on Baudelaire and Flowers of Evil. Conservative critics believe that Baudelaire is a decadent poet and Flowers of Evil is a poisonous weed. Bourgeois authoritative scholars such as Ransen and Brunaj also belittled Baudelaire. But they have to admit the artistic features of Flowers of Evil. After criticizing Baudelaire's decadence, Lanson affirmed that he was a "powerful artist". The poet Hugo wrote a letter to Baudelaire, praising these poems for "shining like stars in the sky". Hugo said, "The author of the flower of evil has created a new chill." Baudelaire is not only a pioneer of French symbolism poetry, but also one of the founders of modernism. Modernism believes that the aesthetic concept of good, evil, beauty and ugliness is different from the general secular concept of beauty and ugliness. The so-called beauty and goodness in modernism refers to the poet's unique and perfect display of his spiritual realm with the most suitable artistic means to express his inner secrets and true feelings. Flowers of Evil has accomplished such an aesthetic mission brilliantly. The word "evil" in the French "flower of evil" originally meant not only evil and evil, but also disease and pain. Baudelaire dedicated his poems to the poet jean paul Gauthie on the title page, calling his poems "sick flowers", thinking that his works are a kind of "sick" art, and he has a deep hatred for the real world that makes him sick. In his letter to his friends, he said: "In this cruel book, I have injected all my thoughts and my whole heart (modified). This hatred is so profound because it reflects the author's strong yearning for health, light and even "sacred" things. Baudelaire published a unique collection of prose poems, Melancholy in Paris (1869) and Artificial Paradise (1860). His literary criticism, a glimpse of aesthetics (1868) and romantic art also have a certain position in the history of French literary criticism. Baudelaire also translated Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio and The Sequel of Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio by Poe, an American poet, novelist and literary critic. One of Baudelaire's contributions to symbolism poetry is that he put forward spirituality in view of romanticism's emphasis on emotion. The so-called spirituality is actually thought. He always organizes his image around an idea. Even in some poems that emphasize description, he often changes the meaning of the whole poem by putting forward some ideas.