Flower of Evil

This book is a selection of Baudelaire's masterpiece "The Flowers of Evil". It selects more than fifty representative poems from more than one hundred poems, showing the poet's poetic world as comprehensively as possible. The main representative chapters include "Blessing", "Giantess", "Ode to Beauty", "Exotic Fragrance", "Cat", etc. "Flowers of Evil" is a poetic and artistic work that expresses Western mental illness and social pathology. Baudelaire's genius is precisely reflected in his ability to discover beauty in a world of evil, feel the existence of evil in the experience of beauty, and turn decay into magic through poetry. Therefore, in a sense, "Flowers of Evil" is the art of "evil" rather than an ode to evil. Using poetry to express the ugliness of modern cities, the hypocrisy of modern civilization, and the poverty and emptiness of modern people's spiritual world is the unique contribution of "Flowers of Evil" to the poetry world, and it is also a useful inspiration provided by Baudelaire to future modernism. With rare courage, the poet displayed all kinds of scandals and vices, and also confided the depression and distress deep in his heart. The theme of "The Flower of Evil" is evil and the relationship between good and evil that revolves around evil. Evil not only refers to evil, but also melancholy, pain and morbidity, while flowers can be understood as goodness and beauty. Baudelaire broke through thousands of years of views on good and evil and observed evil from a unique perspective. He believed that evil has a dual nature. It has both an evil side and a special kind of beauty. On the one hand, it corrodes and infringes on human beings, and on the other hand, it is full of challenge and resistance spirit, inspiring people to fight against their own laziness and social injustice. Therefore, Baudelaire both hates and praises evil, fears and yearns for it. He lives in evil, but strives not to be swallowed up by evil, but to face evil and analyze evil with a critical eye. To pick the flowers of evil is to dig out hope in evil and draw moral lessons from evil.