Jenny VincentChris BishopENGL 233302/22/2014paper titleCHARLES BAUDELAIRE ESSENTIALS o Dates: 1821-1867 o Nationality: French; French o Genres: Poetry; Prose-poetry; art critic; Essayist; Poetry translator/critic. o Literary Movement: Symbolist • Symbolist Movement: “A group of late 19th-century French writers, including Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé, who favored dreams, visions, and the associative powers of the imagination in their poetry. They rejected their predecessors' tendency towards naturalism and realism, believing that the purpose of art was not to represent reality but to access greater truths through the "systematic disturbance of the senses", as described Rimbaud. The translated works of Edgar Allan Poe influenced the French Symbolists” (“Symbolist Movement”). Personal History o Family: The death of his father when Baudelaire was young proved to have enormous repercussions in his life, as his mother remarried a man very quickly. a bit like Baudelaire. Baudelaire was more of a free spirit and his father-in-law a strict soldier, which led to a long dissent between the two (Gaskell, 108). o Youth: The contrasting personality of his stepfather stimulated Baudelaire's youthful rebellion, leading, among other things, to his contraction of syphilis, which was the eventual cause of his death (Norton, 467). o Jeanne Duval: Baudelaire had an on-and-off relationship with Duval that lasted over 20 years. The relationship between a middle-class Frenchman and an actress of African descent was severely considered socially unacceptable. Baudelaire's family never gave their blessing for the relationship and that is probably why, in addition to their hold on his finances, that Baudelaire and Duval remain...... middle of paper ... nza shows Baudelaire's materialism, the things that would be there, the kind of place where they would be. Baudelaire describes a place that he seems to have attempted to create by spending frivolously on fine furniture and clothing. This perfect place with “the rarest flowers… [and] golden ceilings if there were any” (18, 21), has all the beautiful and beautiful things they desire. For Baudelaire, it is beautiful to live in a place with beautiful, expensive things where we can be together for a long time with “furniture that has the shine of the years” (15-16). He continues to dream of this place where he wishes to take his love in the last stanza discussing the "sleepy ships" (31) that bring all the riches of the world to this place where the sun sets "slowly the earth falls asleep beneath a sea of ​​gentle fire” (39-40) over a city covered in gold and flowers.Rating?