Acknowledging the loss of its supposed harmony with social space, showing itself as culturally marginalized, regretting the subordination of poetic mystery to technocracy and accumulation, to the primacy of another conception of language, articulating thereby a discourse of crisis, poetry shapes a certain way of being in the world, expressed generation after generation, independently of the sociological truth of this crisis. It is not a matter of challenging the dramatic nature of historical traumas and ruptures that took place since Baudelaire, but of understanding, from the poems in The Flowers of Evil and of fragments of Mon Coeur mis à nu, the constitution of a strong mark of modern poetic discourse.
Charles Baudelaire; Modernity; Poetry; Culture