"Flowers of Evil" is the representative work of French poet Baudelaire and one of the most influential literary works of the 19th century. The theme of the poem revolves around the melancholy and ideals of young people, using depressive and gloomy images to express the anxious and uneasy state of people's hearts. Baudelaire changed the definition of beauty from the past advocates of classicism and advocated discovering a different kind of beauty in the ugliness and evil of urban life. The innovations in language and aesthetic ideas of "Flowers of Evil" influenced later poets and became the foundation of modernist literature.
