Título: Charles Baudelaire
Seção: Poetry
Background: Baudelaire was born in Paris, France, on April 9, 1821, and baptized two months later at Saint-Sulpice Roman Catholic Church. His father, Francois Baudelaire, a senior civil servant and amateur artist, was 34 years older than Baudelaire's mother, Caroline. Francois died during Baudelaire's childhood, in 1827. The following year, Caroline married Lieutenant Colonel Jacques Aupick, who later became a French ambassador to various noble courts.

Conteúdo: Who among us has not dreamt, in moments of ambition, of the miracle of a poetic prose, musical without rhythm and rhyme, supple and staccato enough to adapt to the lyrical stirrings of the soul, the undulations of dreams, and sudden leaps of consciousness. This obsessive idea is above all a child of giant cities, of the intersecting of their myriad relations.  Baudelaire is one of the major innovators in French literature. His poetry is influenced by the French romantic poets of the earlier 19th century, although its attention to the formal features of verse connects it more closely to the work of the contemporary "Parnassians". As for theme and tone, in his works we see the rejection of the belief in the supremacy of nature and the fundamental goodness of man as typically espoused by the romantics and expressed by them in rhetorical, effusive and public voice in favor of a new urban sensibility, an awareness of individual moral complexity, an interest in vice (linked with decadence) and refined sensual and aesthetic pleasures, and the use of urban subject matter, such as the city, the crowd, individual passers-by, all expressed in highly ordered verse, sometimes through a cynical and ironic voice. Formally, the use of sound to create atmosphere, and of "symbols" (images that take on an expanded function within the poem), betray a move towards considering the poem as a self-referential object, an idea further developed by the Symbolists Verlaine and Mallarme, who acknowledge 

user: What was the first poetry

assistant: Who among us has not dreamt, in moments of ambition, of the miracle of a poetic prose, musical without rhythm and rhyme,

user: What did this lead too

assistant: This obsessive idea is above all a child of giant cities, of the intersecting of their myriad relations.

user: What was his next challenge

assistant: This obsessive idea is above all a child of giant cities, of the intersecting of their myriad relations.

user: What did he try next

assistant: Baudelaire is one of the major innovators in French literature.

user: Why was this so bad

assistant: His poetry is influenced by the French romantic poets of the earlier 19th century,

user: What did he try next

assistant: As for theme and tone, in his works we see the rejection of the belief in the supremacy of nature and the fundamental goodness of man

user: Why was this so bad

assistant: Beyond his innovations in versification and the theories of symbolism and "correspondences", an awareness of which is essential to any appreciation

user: What did he try

assistant: the theological direction of his work and his alleged advocacy of "satanism", his experience of drug-induced states of mind, the figure of the dandy,