An important poem highlighting Baudelaire's beautifying things traditionally associated with ugliness. He uses oxymorons such as "superb carcass", and a horrifying vocabulary featuring flies, maggots.
Une Charogne
Author
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Pierre Baudelaire (English pronunciation: /ˈboʊdəlɛər/; French: [ʃaʁl bodlɛʁ]) (9 April 1821 - 31 August 1867) was a nineteenth century French poet, critic, and translator. A controversial figure in his lifetime, Baudelaire's name has become a byword for literary and artistic decadence. At...
