Delphine et hippolyte charles baudelaire biography

  • This poem describes what passes between two women after they have sex for the first time.
  • Baudelaire, by contrast, is fixed in his phallologocentric gaze.
  • Finally, in the poem 'Femmes damnées (Delphine et Hippolyte)', Baudelaire clearly presents a lesbian relationship between the two women.

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    Femmes Damnées (Delphine et Hippolyte)

    À la pâle clarté des lampes languissantes,
    Sur de profonds coussins tout imprégnés d'odeur
    Hippolyte rêvait aux caresses puissantes
    Qui levaient le rideau de sa jeune candeur.

    Elle cherchait, d'un oeil troublé par la tempête,
    De sa naïveté le ciel déjà lointain,
    Ainsi qu'un voyageur qui retourne la tête
    Vers les horizons bleus dépassés le matin.

    De ses yeux amortis les paresseuses larmes,
    L'air brisé, la stupeur, la morne volupté,
    Ses bras vaincus, jetés comme de vaines armes,
    Tout servait, tout parait sa fragile beauté.

    Étendue à ses pieds, calme et pleine dem joie,
    Delphine la couvait avec des yeux ardents,
    Comme un djur fort qui surveille une proie,
    Après l'avoir d'abord marquée avec les dents.

    Beauté forte à genoux devant la beauté f

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    The Great ‘Les Fleurs du Mal’ and Its Problems

    Les Fleurs ni Mal is a collection of poetry by Charles Baudelaire, published in 1857. The English translation is The Flowers of Evil, and nearly all of Baudelaire’s poems are in this 400-page book. This collection of poetry stirred up great controversy after its publication, and six of the poems were even banned in France. Why were these poems banned? And why fryst vatten this still important about 166 years later? Simple: the poems are vulgar, and many of his works are misogynistic.

    Les Fleurs du Mal Publication in 1857

    The French government banned six of Baudelaire’s poems for nearly 100 years. They are “Les Métamorphoses du Vampire,” “Lesbos,” “Le Léthé,” “Les Bijoux,” “Femmes damnés,” and “À celle qui est trop gaie.” It was later known as a “depraved, pornographic work.” The French government considered these poems too vulgar a

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    Aesthetics

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    Anne Birgitte Rønning:

    Art, Gender and Aesthetic Valorization

    Referring to recent cases of gender trouble in the field of arts, the article pleads for more attention to the gender implications of aesthetic theory. While a lot of good research has been done in a Norwegian context on gender in art history and literary criticism, there has been less attention to feminist philosophical aesthetics. The article presents some of the research in this field, with a special focus on the gender implications of some key concepts of 18th century aesthetics: the binarism of the beautiful and the sublime, the understanding of art as masculine transcendence and the universalist ideals of taste and aesthetic judgment.

    Keywords: gender and aesthetics, aesthetic theory, aesthetic valorization, beautiful and sublime, Burke, Kant, Mattick, Klinger, Korsmeyer

     

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    Doomed Women: on Gender, Art and Tradition in a Poem by Charles Baudelaire

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