Decadence and morality in Baudelaire's poem
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Abstract: the present paper discusses the aspects of decadence in Charles Baudelaire’s poems. Embodying par excellence the French modern sensibility, Baudelaire goes counter the Bourgeois and Romanticist conception of beauty and extracts the pure and sublime in what is conventionally thought to be repugnant and morbid. The chosen poems encapsulate an aesthetic philosophy of dethroning poetry from its metaphysicality and transcendentalism in order to be engaged with the very physicality of human nature, the disruptive feeling of ennui and the unpleasant realities of the thickly populated Paris. All these decadent themes in Baudelaire’s poems are coupled with an equally decadent language accentuated by the use of symbolism.
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