“O muddy greatness! sublime ignominy! "
How difficult it is to make a choice.
We would like to take everything, choose everything, show everything.
If Baudelaire,
"Dante without paradise, who oscillates without rest from damned matter to redemption"
, in the words of André Suarès, charms us as much, it is perhaps because he was a form fool, appearance, and style.
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“Here are the times when, vibrating on its stem, Each flower evaporates like a censer; Sounds and scents revolve in the evening air; Melancholy waltz and languid vertigo! "
Who has never been moved by these verses where love of aesthetics and deep melancholy intermingle? Baudelaire is the cantor of
spleen
, of never desperate decadence. Poetry was his only remedy. He once wrote:
"Grant me the grace to produce some beautiful verses which prove to myself that I am not the least of men, that I am not inferior to those whom I despise."
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offers you a series of tests on the greatest French poems. Are you familiar with
Tristesse de la lune
, by Charles Baudelaire? Check it after this test.