O poeta de Ler fleurs du mal “contempla” a cidade

Abstract

The city of the nineteenth century is the Babel that thrives with the loss of the connections and the lack of reference to the values of the past; stage for the progressive atrophy of experience relative to the tradition, to the memory valid for the entire community, replaced by the experience of the shock linked to sphere of the individual. The impact of modern technology has changed everything and especially the city, whose capacity of regeneration — endless metamorphosis of creative self-destruction - was getting faster. In the poetry of Baudelaire are present the metaphors of the death, the destruction, the degeneration, the putrefaction, the skull. Are more than appropriate allegories to show what was happening to the body of the city. Figurative fragments are shown sparsely, formless, but never a complete picture - and this gives the allegorical character to it.