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Charles Baudelaire
French poet and critic Charles Baudelaire, photograph by Étienne Carjat, 1863.
Charles Baudelaire's influential poetry collection, Les Fleurs du mal, is organized into six distinct sections, each exploring a specific theme:
- Spleen et idéal
- Tableaux parisiens
- Le Vin
- Fleurs du mal
- Révolte
- La Mort
This structural arrangement was considered innovative for French poetry at the time, allowing Baudelaire to balance contrasting styles and themes to highlight the interdependence of opposites.1