Question

Benediction meaning as the poem

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Explanation:

Baudelaire introduced a number of important themes in “Benediction” that he would develop more fully in subsequent poems. Such themes as the dangerous hostility of women and the painful realities of the poet’s life form a part of the negative, and later dominant, dimension of Flowers of Evil. The greatest importance of “Benediction” within Baudelaire’s work, however, lies in its positive elements. The reader meets the child-poet when he is still naïve enough to believe in the vision of his own salvation. His progressive consciousness of his fall from grace in later poems gains poignancy through its contrast with the vision presented here and never completely regained.