Taking one or two literary works as examples, it is urgent to understand and evaluate modernist literature.

We believe that the official start time of western modernist literature should be 1857, which is the year when Baudelaire's first typical symbolic poem "Flowers of Evil" came out. We say this because: 1. The Flower of Evil is the first typical symbolic work, and it is also the first work that completely breaks through the traditional poetry art and finds another way. Its appearance marks the rise of symbolism and the formal appearance of modernist literature. 2. The Flower of Evil is the general source of various modernist literary schools and works that appeared in 100 years later, and its influence and traces can be seen in most modernist works. 3. The Flower of Evil has the basic characteristics of modernist literature, and it is a typical modernist literary work in itself. On the subject matter, modernist literature tries to explore the author's own inner world. The Flower of Evil is the first time to implement a great change in brushwork, which goes deep into the poet's heart and describes the evil of society and human nature as the object of artistic beauty. In terms of artistic skills, modernists widely use hints, symbols, contrasts and images to explore the inner mysteries of characters, which is the main artistic feature of Flowers of Evil. The poet Baudelaire developed the Swedish mystic philosopher Robert Jeffrey Sternberg's "Correspondence Theory", and regarded garden plants as a "symbolic forest" to convey information to people, and thought that external things and people's office world could interact and fit each other. Poets can use vivid images to hint at the subtle world inside. It is this method that emphasizes the expression of material images through hints, contrast, rendering, association and other channels that later became the basic method of symbolic poetry and the whole modernist literature.