Modern poetry - Unorthodox alternative beauty in Baudelaire's poems/ আধুনিক কাব্য : বোদলেয়ারের কবিতায় বিপ্রতীপ বৈকল্পিক সৌন্দর্য

Abstract

Father of modern poetry, great French poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) has searched poetic beauty in depression that has been felt in the sludge of aversion and hate. In his poetry reader finds an unparalleled poetic art in sin, hell, lewdness, libido. Surprisingly Baudelaire tries to extract beauty from carcase. His poetry is not gracious but rich in beauty. A wonderful blend of sin and beauty one may witness in Baudelaire's poetry. He has seen the trafficking of foul sex in Paris. He has filtrated poetic beauty from deteriorated civic life. He wrote, hell may be the source of beauty in his 'Hymne a la Beaute' (Hymn to Beauty) of 'Les Fleurs du Mal (1857). He showed in his poem 'L' Albatras' (The Albatross) the wounded bird Albatross as the symbol of spoiled charm. The poet finds beauty in the heartless city, the indecent breast of Sphinx of Greek mythology, waterless canal, sick poetry, unconscionable desire, ugly sex of monster bint in his different poems like 'Le Cygne', 'La Muse Malada', 'La Muse Venale', 'La Beaute', 'La Geante', 'Une Charogne', 'Un Voyage a Cythere' etc. To the poet's view, the sinful man and woman, blind, deaf and dumb, ugly are also part of beauty. In his great poem 'La Voyage' Baudelaire wrote that for the creation of beauty nobody will be there to place a petty ensis on his tomb. The dejected poet has left a doleful memento for the mankind. He has built a cresset of light in his poem 'Les Phares' with thief, hooligan, jaundice patient, severed corpse, girl's naked acting, worship of witch, lust of ghoul etc. The great poet Baudelaire is the aesthetic artist of decayed time, truely a novel architect of beauty opposite to the romanticism.