Evil Flower

Author: (French) Baudelaire
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Publication Date: 2005-06-01
Features: Les Fleurs du mal is a strange poem, a history of the heart, a book of blood and tears, and also an accusation by the author against the bourgeois society he lived in, encompassing both social pathology and the poet's melancholy. Les Fleurs du mal by Baudelaire is a strange poem, a history of the heart, a book of blood and tears. The flower of evil blooms at the edge of hell. Childhood refers not only to physical childhood but also to spiritual childhood. Those readers who dare to confront society and life through Les Fleurs du mal see a devastated society, experience a life subjected to abuse, hear cries echoing from hell, and their hearts may be filled with a warm tide of compassion, or a blazing fire of rebellion, or a warning like the morning bell and evening drum. In short, they will gain a calmer, braver, and deeper perspective, no longer deceived by the veil of hypocrisy, no longer intoxicated by blind optimism, and no longer intimidated by the ugliness of the world. Les Fleurs du mal is a forbidden fruit from Eden, which only the brave and upright can pluck and digest. They need not wait for the serpent's temptation.