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    A Study Guide for Charles Baudelaire's "Invitation to the Voyage"
    A Study Guide for Charles Baudelaire's "Invitation to the Voyage"
    A Study Guide for Charles Baudelaire's "Invitation to the Voyage"
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    A Study Guide for Charles Baudelaire's "Invitation to the Voyage"

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    A Study Guide for Charles Baudelaire's "Invitation to the Voyage," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 2, 2016
    ISBN9781535826174
    A Study Guide for Charles Baudelaire's "Invitation to the Voyage"

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      A Study Guide for Charles Baudelaire's "Invitation to the Voyage" - Gale

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      Invitation to the Voyage

      Charles Baudelaire

      1857

      Introduction

      Charles Baudelaire is one of the best-known French poets of the nineteenth century and perhaps the most influential French writer of his generation. His work helped transform the literary period of romanticism into the newer movements of decadence and symbolism. Devoted to ideals of pleasure, indulgence, and melancholy, he died at the age of forty-six, broken by sensual indulgence.

      Baudelaire's great work The Flowers of Evil was published in 1857, a book collection of lyric poems. The reaction to the work was notable: Baudelaire was tried and convicted for obscenity by the French government. The work shocked the French reading public and was considered obscene in its depiction of lesbianism. Its rejection of bourgeois (middle-class) morality, however, was perhaps more deeply shocking. Six poems were condemned and were not published again in France until 1949.

      Invitation to the Voyage, not among the condemned pieces, is one of the poems from The Flowers of Evil. It is a hymn to transcendent beauty that the poet creates within his own soul, separate from and almost incommunicable to the world. In an exploration of his interior world, Baudelaire proves himself a master of human psychology as much as of poetic art. Here he has as much in common with the later psychological work of Sigmund Freud as with the literary movements of symbolism and decadence.

      Author Biography

      Baudelaire was born in Paris, France, on April 9, 1821. His father, Francçois, a civil servant, died six years later. Baudelaire's mother remarried Jacques Aupinck, an army officer who made a second career as an ambassador in the French foreign service. Baudelaire's intense feelings of alienation in adulthood are often traced to the emotional distance from his mother that he suffered while she was courting her

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