![]() The Flowers of Evil consist of over 160 poems that are divided into 5 units creating 6 cycles. When it comes to the form of the poems, we could say the book was written with strict rules. In todays analysis the book is not perceived as an immoral and shocking work and does not get many negative responses. Instead of them he decided to write about darker themes in his book of poems. Baudelaire wanted to torture the readers with his poems because they were used to reading nice verses that made their, in Baudelaires opinion, pretty but hypocrite lives even better.īaudelaire was not the kind of artist who wanted to write poems about beauty and an uplifted spirit. The Flowers of Evil was written for 15 years but at that time the book was not well accepted and became recognized as a work of art many years later. Four years later the book was published again but this time they've cut out all of the parts that could endanger public morality. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was also punished for some parts of this, at that time, misunderstood and immoral book. Charles Baudelaire was a great but yet unaccepted poet of that time. ![]()
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