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1Poème du Mois - 004 L'albatros

By Charles Baudelaire

Albatros ont été décrits comme "le plus légendaire de tous les oiseaux". Un albatros est un emblème central à La Rime du vieux marin de Samuel Taylor Coleridge, un albatros en captivité est également une métaphore de la poète maudit dans un poème de Charles Baudelaire. C'est à partir du poème de Coleridge que l'utilisation d'albatros comme une métaphore est tirée, quelqu'un avec un fardeau ou un obstacle, dit-on "un albatros autour du cou", la peine infligée dans le poème pour le navigateur qui a tué l'albatros. En partie à cause du poème, il ya un mythe largement répandu que (tous) les marins crois qu'il désastreuses de tirer ou de nuire à un albatros, en vérité, les marins régulièrement tués pour les manger, par exemple, tel que rapporté par James Cook en 1772. D'autre part, il a été rapporté que les marins capturés les oiseaux, mais soi-disant laisser à nouveau libre, la raison possible est que les albatros ont été souvent considérés comme les âmes des marins perdus, de sorte que les tuer aurait été considéré comme portant malheur. (Wikipedia et google translate :D )

2Poème du Mois - 005 Le Chat

By Charles Baudelaire

<i>LE CHAT<br><br>Viens, mon beau chat, sur mon cœur amoureux:<br>Retiens les griffes de ta patte,<br>Et laisse-moi plonger dans tes beaux yeux,<br>Mêlés de métal et d'agate.<br><br>Lorsque mes doigts caressent à loisir<br>Ta tête et ton dos élastique,<br>Et que ma main s'enivre du plaisir<br>De palper ton corps électrique,<br><br>Je vois ma femme en esprit; son regard,<br>Comme le tien, aimable bête,<br>Profond et froid, coupe et fend comme un dard.<br><br>Et, des pieds jusques à la tête,<br>Un air subtil, un dangereux parfum<br>Nagent autour de son corps brun. </i>

3Flowers of Evil

By Charles Baudelaire

This is a collection of French poems by Charles Baudelaire, originally titled "Les Fleurs du mal." It was popular in the symbolist and modernist movements of the 19th century, and the poems are about decadence and eroticism. (Summary by Assaf Koss)

La compilation de poèmes intitulée "Les fleurs du mal" de Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) fit fureur et scandale dès sa publication initiale. Du coup, six poèmes furent censurés pour immoralité et n'apparaîtront que dans les publications d'après 1949. Voici l'édition de 1896 qui est une compilation presque complète de 152 poèmes, témoins du réalisme et de l'esprit innovateur et provocateur de Baudelaire. - Summary by Sonia

Multilingual Monthly Poetry Project is a project oriented to gather multiple translations and multiple contributions of one chosen poem for the current month. Welcome to the world of interpretations!<br><br>The poet, impressed by the beauty of the exotic country, India, during his voyage in 1841, later writes a poem, in which he invites his beloved on a wonderful journey to the mysterious world with a variety of colors, the world filled with serenity.<br><br>Poem of April, 2022 - An invitation to a journey, by Charles Baudelaire. Language of origin: Franch, "L’invitation au voyage". - Summary by Anastasiia Solokha

6Flowers of Evil

By Charles Baudelaire and James Huneker

Charles Baudelaire was a French poet whose work is described as combining an exoticism inherited from the Romantics with the Realism of other French writers of his time. The Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du mal) is a book of lyric poetry and his most famous work. In it he expresses the changing nature of beauty in the rapidly industrialising Paris caused by Haussmann's renovation of the city during the mid-19th century. He coined the term modernity to designate the fleeting experience of life in an urban metropolis, and the responsibility of artistic expression to capture that experience. Les Fleurs du mal includes nearly all Baudelaire's poetry, written from 1840 until his death in August 1867. First published in 1857, it was important in the symbolist and modernist movements. Though it was extremely controversial upon publication, with six of its poems censored due to their immorality, it is now considered a major work of French poetry. The poems in Les Fleurs du mal frequently break with tradition, using suggestive images and unusual forms. They deal with themes relating to decadence and eroticism, particularly focusing on suffering and its relationship to original sin, disgust toward evil and oneself, obsession with death, and aspiration toward an ideal world. Les Fleurs du mal had a powerful influence on several notable French poets, including Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, and Stéphane Mallarmé. These English translations by Frank Pearce Sturm (1879-1942) include a selection from the original French edition. (Summary by Alan Mapstone and wikipedia)

7Little Poems in Prose

By Charles Baudelaire

Noted macabre poet Charles Baudelaire later in life wrote this collection of brief sketches, what he deemed "little poems in prose". He thus employs his rich, romanticist skills in service of creating dream-like passages of ethereal beauty and dark turns of fate. His words may be both kind and cruel in turns but is always entrancing. Also included is an extensive biography of Baudelaire by James Huneker. (Summary by Ben Tucker)