? The first part: Melancholy and Ideals, writing about melancholy and ideals, with heavy melancholy and dim ideals. . Walking through the heavy melancholy, looking for hard-to-find ideals.
The second "Scenery of Paris" describes Paris in the poet's eyes or 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.
Finally, it ends with a long poem named Travel, which summarizes the poet's lifelong pursuit and life.
(a) the author's life
? Baudelaire, 182 1, was born in Paris, France on April 9. 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.
Baudelaire's stepfather's autocratic style and high-handed means made him the most annoying person in Baudelaire. 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.
1839, baudelaire passed the graduation exam. He yearns for a "free life" and wants to be a writer. He reads widely, dabbles in a lot of literary works, and often shuttles between young painters and writers.
184 1 year, Charles baudelaire was sent abroad, made friends with Paris literati and artists, and lived a bohemian life. I started preparing to go to Calcutta, but stopped in Mauritius and other places. And said that he would not continue to travel.
1February 842 15 returned to France and inherited 65438+ million francs from his father. He has published more than 20 poems, 10 comments and a lot of translations. 1855, 18 prose poems were published with the title "Flowers of Evil". In July, the first batch of prose poems "Dim Night" and "Loneliness" were published. June 25th 1857 published the poetry anthology "Flowers of Evil". Established Baudelaire's important position in the history of French literature.
1866 One day in March, Charles Baudelaire suddenly fell ill and fainted. By March 23, his condition continued to deteriorate. The right side of the body is paralyzed. Charles Baudelaire Baudelaire died on August 3rd1,1867. The body was buried in Mon Bannas cemetery.
(2) Creation background
? /kloc-France at the end of 0/9 century, mental depression and uncertainty, anxiety, loneliness, emptiness and boredom in life, and the sinking of physical desires are the universal mental state of the whole 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.
It reached its 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, melancholy, lonely, arrogant, pessimistic and rebellious, and he is a stubborn individualist. So as to create more anxious poems full of guilt.
Because of this, Flowers of Evil offended the authorities with its boldness and frankness, and its grotesque ideas and advanced ideas angered the conservative forces and triggered a fierce siege. Baudelaire was accused of immorality and blasphemy and went to court. Finally, he was forced to delete six obscene poems that were regarded as outrageous: Lesbos, Women in Hell, Jewelry, Forgetting Sichuan, Unhappy Young Woman and Vampire Avatar. Four years later, thirty-five poems were added to the second edition of Flowers of Evil.
At that time, when this collection of poems came out, there were only 100 poems included. 186 1 reprinted, increased to 129. Later, it was reprinted many times and gained something one after another.
(C) the characteristics of poetry