La femme est naturelle, c’est a dire abominable”.
Charles Baudelaire generally portrays women negatively in his poetry. They are described as ambiguous and extremely difficult to understand. His fascination with making everything that is seen as beautiful into something ugly manifests itself in his writing. Baudelaire’s aim is to transfer that which is thought of as revolting into beauty, and that which is seen as beautiful into something horrid. I will start by giving examples of certain poems in which this is true, and later I will examine the reasons for this passiveness and hatred towards women. The poem “a celle qui est trop gaie”, starts off very gently, using stereotypical imagery of women, e.g. flowers, beautiful landscapes, the sky etc. By verse five, the tone changes dramatically and Budelaire becomes sarcastic, dark thoughts prevail. Now he hates flowers, and he destroys them. He wants to keep the woman in his room and make a hole inside her, where he can inject his venom, thereby killing her (“ a travers ces levres nouvelles, plus eclatantes et plus belles, t’infuser mon venin, ma soeur!”). Baudelaire’s aim is to shock the reader; he combines the romantic (from the 19th century romanticism movement), with the gothic. In the poem “le serpent qui danse”, Bau
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Approximate Word count = 1039
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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