The Eyes of Beauty by Charles Pierre Baudelaire
The Eyes of Beauty, by Charles Pierre Baudelaire: A collection of poems exploring the concept of beauty and its relationship with the human experience.
By Charles Pierre Baudelaire · First published 1856 · Genre: Poetry, Symbolism, Romanticism · 167 words
First lines
You are a sky of autumn, pale and rose; / But all the sea of sadness in my blood / Surges, and ebbing, leaves my lips morose, / Salt with the memory of the bitter flood.
In vain your hand glides my faint bosom o'er, / That which you seek, beloved, is desecrate / By woman's tooth and talon; ah, no more / Seek in me for a heart which those dogs ate.
It is a ruin where the jackals rest, / And rend and tear and glut themselves and slay -- / A perfume swims about your naked breast!
Beauty, hard scourge of spirits, have your way! / With flame-like eyes that at bright feasts have flared / Burn up these tatters that the beasts have spared!
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Charles Pierre Baudelaire
- Date: 1856 CE
- Language: English
- Genres: Poetry, Symbolism, Romanticism, Modernist literature
- Length: 167 words
- Structure: 1 section, 4 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Easy (6th Grade)
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Genres
- Poetry — The Eyes of Beauty is a poem by Charles Pierre Baudelaire, a French poet known for his works in the symbolist and modernist movements.
- Symbolism — As a symbolist poet, Baudelaire uses metaphoric imagery in The Eyes of Beauty, expressing the deeper meaning, moods and ideas of beauty's eyes.
- Romanticism — Baudelaire's poem explores deep feelings and emotions, and the transcendental nature of beauty's eyes, which aligns with the Romantic genre.
- Modernist literature — Baudelaire was influential in the modernist movement, which is characterised by a self-conscious break with traditional styles of poetry and verse
Tags
beauty · aesthetics · poetry · romanticism · symbolism · art · nature · emotion · sensation · imagination · philosophy · transcendence