To please the barbarians,
In order to show the arrogant slave to the devil,
Flattery, we insult.
The people we love, flatter the people we hate,
We mourn the weak who are despised for no reason,
We became slavish executioners,
We have become extremely ignorant.
Pay tribute to the stupidity of tauren,
We are guilty of corruption,
A little blessing.
We kissed a stupefied fool,
And express infinite worship,
Finally, in order to faint.
Immersed in fanaticism, we are actually,
It seems that I am proud of my poetic talent and my grades are getting better and better.
The excitement caused by declining things.
Proud priest,
Drink when you are thirsty,
Eat without being hungry,
Blow out the light quickly,
Don't hesitate,
Let's hide in the dark.
Introduction to the article:
Flowers of Evil is a collection of poems by Charles Baudelaire (182 1- 1867). This is a book with strict logic, strict structure and flawless.
This is a poetic work of art that shows western mental illness and social diseases. However, illness is not necessarily a kind of beauty. Baudelaire's genius is precisely that he can find beauty in the evil world, feel the existence of evil in the experience of beauty, and turn decay into magic through poetry.
Therefore, in a sense, Flowers of Evil is an evil art, not an evil ode. Expressing the ugliness of modern city, the hypocrisy of modern civilization and the poverty and emptiness of modern people's spiritual world with poetry is the unique contribution of Flowers of Evil to the poetry world, and it is also the beneficial enlightenment provided by Baudelaire to future modernism.
With rare courage, the poet showed all kinds of ugliness and debauchery, and also poured out his deep depression and distress.
Extended data writing background:
/kloc-At the end of 0/9th century, the depression and uncertainty in France's spirit, anxiety, loneliness, emptiness and boredom in life, and the sinking of physical desires became the common mental state in the western world.
Around the First World War, with the intensification of various contradictions in western capitalist society, various modernist literary schools appeared one after another, reaching a climax in the 1920s. It is worth mentioning that the 1848 revolution was a turning point in French literature.
Critical realism literature has lost its early enthusiasm and spirit, emphasizing the pursuit of more accurate description and purely objective analysis with "scientific spirit". /kloc-in the 1980s of 0/9, in France, the banner of symbolism was officially played, and the team of symbolist writers gradually formed.
As a representative of modernist literature in this transitional period, Baudelaire could not bear the bondage of his family, and left his biological father's legacy of100000 francs to his family to show his contempt for orthodox bourgeois life.
Baudelaire's melancholy is not only congenital, but also acquired. It is the expression of inner depression and restlessness after a social individual loses value and cannot find a way out. It reflects the conflict between man and the times and society.
He is melancholy, lonely, arrogant, pessimistic and rebellious. He is a stubborn individualist. So as to create more anxious poems full of guilt.
185 1 Bonaparte's revolutionary passion soon disappeared after the coup. He was pessimistic and disappointed with the revolution, and his thoughts turned sharply to the right. Moreover, this negative, pessimistic and decadent thought is reflected in his head view and poetry creation. He hates the prevailing hypocritical bourgeois morality and ordinary people.
He even hates healthy, natural and normal things, and the contradiction between ideal and reality makes him turn to inner darkness. He looks for aesthetic objects in things that are opposite to aesthetic feeling and morality, even immoral things, as if he is willing to accept them as long as they do not have bourgeois style. However, after his disillusionment, he quickly resumed his literary life.
Since then, he has been immersed in poetry creation and has been wandering in the field of literature. However, the revolution in the field of literature fully embodies his positive attitude. So between 1852- 1857, he published more than 20 poems. During this period, he also translated a lot of Poe's poems. The latter's works emphasize the writing of melancholy, and most of them are eccentric, legendary and angry.
Edgar Allan Poe's works of "turning the funny into grotesque, exaggerating wit into ridicule, and turning the grotesque into strangeness and mystery" had a great influence on Baudelaire, which freed him from the personal sentimentality trapped by French romanticism and played a great role in poetry.
Therefore, Baudelaire developed Poe's theory and turned romantic poetry into a symbolic lyric style. After more than ten years of efforts and repeated revisions, the flower of evil was finally published in 1857.