Carrion by Baudelaire in Modern Period

The tone of Charles Baudelaire does not fall exactly within the period when forward-looking ardor dominated in wile. Living between 1831 and 1867 Baudelaire caught only the rise of modernist tendencies in literature, and it can be observed that he played an important post in the development of modern style. His writings, which were pretty scandalous for the time obviously bear features of modern style. This paper aims to demonstrate how Baudelaire rhymes are related to modernism, victimisation his verse Carrion as an example.The distinctive features of modernist art are its symbolic nature, with child(p) soulfulnessal approach and fancy forms of outside reflection, which can sometimes be even disgraceful. Logical ties inside the artwork are unevident and every person is allowed to form own original opinion about it. An artwork oft represents a sort of transcendent form, and it often does not really incriminate that, what it appears to be at first sight. Combined with sha rp contrasts this forms the identity of modern style .Applying the described principled to Baudelaires verse it is firstly needful to turn to symbolism. The poet actually described a rather disgusting topic a corpse of an animal rotting near the road. That what was a verboten for artists of previous epoch and would never be aesthetic for them is described by Baudelaire with some sickly passion The flies swarmed on the vulva, where The hordes of blackness contorted The maggots like a river, on Those rags that seemed to live.But this caused him to start thinking of beauty and its pot and even compare his sweetheart to this rotting corpse And even you go out come to this, This horrible infection This is a perfect example of shocking expression of the artistic idea and unobvious ties, for further Baudelaire relates the dead body to the idea or eternal beauty, which will forever live in a spiritual world So tell them Tell the worms for me, The ones wholl snog and eatThat I have k ept your faith divine, My decomposing sweet Actually the idea, that physical beauty is temporary and spiritual beauty surpasses the bodily one is not new. Baudelaires merit is not in the invention of idea, but in finding new forms for its expression. Perhaps the refs would be getting sleepy from the corpses direct perfume like a woman in the poem, after all, as in any modernist artwork, the reader is allowed to form a personal opinion.The poem is exclusively authors view of the world which a reader can get acquainted with. Such withdrawal from universalism in art and providing insights into own ideas is one of the key elements of modern art. Works cited 1. Bradbury, Malcolm, & James McFarlane (eds. ), contemporaneousness A Guide to European Literature 18901930 Penguin, Penguin Literary Criticism series, 1978 2. Charles Baudelaire. Carrion. Translated by C. S. Thompson. Available at http//www. noctiviganti. com/books_flowers_carrion. html