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"Flowers of Evil" is a collection of poems by Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867). It is a book with logic, structure, beginning and end, and a coherent whole. "Flowers of Evil" is known as "a strange flower blooming" in France's transitional period when "the great tradition has disappeared and new traditions have not yet been formed". The work combines the characteristics of romanticism, symbolism and realism. The poems in "Flowers of Evil" are not arranged according to the year of writing, but are divided into six poetry groups based on content and theme, each with a title: "Melancholy and Ideals", "Paris Scene", "Wine", "Flowers of Evil", "Resistance" and "Death", among which "Melancholy and Ideals" is the most important. The arrangement of the six parts actually draws the trajectory of the conflict between melancholy and ideals. This edition also includes the 1868 supplement to the third edition of "Flowers of Evil", "Collection of Fragmented Poems", "Collection of Romance", "Collection of Inscriptions" and "Collection of Jokes".

"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.