Some of it is vague at times and often secondary but the essence is there. Works such as those are the ones illustrated within the content of this paper. Bibliography lists several secondary sources. The poems described from this compilation are used as examples of Baudelaire's use of the grotesque. The grotesque and morbid may be subtle but they are definite components of the works cited.
Bibliography lists several secondary sources.
An 8 page paper discussing this nineteenth-century French poet and his tremendous influence on the modernist tradition in the twentieth century. It discusses five poems of Baudelaire's poems in some depth, and offers an opinion on why he was so influential. Bibliography lists 3 sources. The two men seemed to be from separate planets, if not universes, as they sat face to face in the comfort of the TV studio. William Butler Yeats, in his three piece Italian suit, was somber and a little detached.