What marked Baudelaire's youth was the awareness of his own loneliness and acquaintance with the darkest circles of Paris. He was not attracted by the aristocratic circles of these cities, but he is hanging out with bohemians (painters, musicians, prostitutes) and he meets that dark side of metropolitan life. Soon he goes to studies in Lyon and Paris, and he there he led a way of life that will give the basic motives to his poetry. The nervous constitution, inherited from the ancestors and the inclination of the analysis, forced Baudelaire to see in every personal affliction the horrors of life and therefore he was deeply affected by mother, who so easily forgot his father. His father died when he was ten years old, and his mother soon remarried. His biography is quite simple in the external events of his life, but it's rich in the internal tragedy.

The history of his ancestors is quite sad, because among them there are also deranged and disturbed people. Baudaliere was born in 1821 and died in 1866. His Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du mal) came to the throes of indignation, the government persecuted him, and the society rebelled against the poet, who discovered the 'painful points' of modern humanity in their terrible, unpopular form. Baudelaire was admired by those who were able to observe that noble tendencies that lay in the basis of the poet's fall, but hated by those who looked to simplify to him, who saw only cynicism in him. And in the midst of the most agile life, Baudelaire was a lonely soul.īyron's pride and irreconcilable loneliness merged in his poetry with the troubles of the fall, the enthusiasm of earthly enjoyment, the humiliating slaughter of the weak soul, bound by chains for a despicable object. The man who kept an irresistible desire for unknown, sublime ideas, and at the same time surrendered with all his being to the whirlwind of big cities, an idealist, and engulfed in the worst marriages and revolts, a man who hurts the ideal and who at the same time has no power to separate from the innocent teases of life - such a man was Baudelaire.

Baudelaire determined the importance of European poetry of modern times with his poetry the history of modern poetry couldn't be imagined without his creativity.

The flowers of evil les fleurs du mal