Okuyucuya: Baudelaire'nin Şiirinin Özü
Author(s)
Date
2005Source Title
Frankofoni
Print ISSN
1016-4537
Publisher
Ürün Yayınları
Issue
17
Pages
19 - 39
Language
Turkish
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Abstract
in this article, Dr. Sunel analyzes the poem 'To the Reader', which is supposed to be
the preface to 'Les Fleurs du Mal'. According to the author, this poem, composed of
Baudelaire's life and different aspects of his life, reflects the essence of his poetry. This poem at the same time mainly tak.es the concept of 'human' and then answers the
questions of 'What is the human being? and What sort of life does a human being have
on earth?'
Starting from the first line of the poem, the author, by examining the sources, which
constitute the formation of this thought in the poet's life, indicates that the reasons
behind this thought are the poet's education, the prevention of his being a literary man,
his being under guardianship, his relation with women and most important of all, his
mother's second marriage.
Dr. Sunel says that in The poet's opinion the human being is a weak creature; he
makes mistakes and commits sin; he follows Satan and is governed by Satan even if he
has repeated what he had done before.
The researcher claims that there are two strong feelings reflected in Baudelaire's life
and his works. üne of them is repentance and the other is boredom. As a weak creature,
the repentance of the human being does not mean anything because the human being
constantly repeats his mistakes. For this reason, he can never get rid of boredom. The
main source of boredom is human poverty. Satan tak.es the human being to Heli by
deceiving him. Even if we try eveıything to get rid of boredom, which is sometimes
caused by someone else's wrongdoings or by our own mistakes, in the end, thc result is
again boredom
To conclude, Dr. Sunel researches how these feelings that Baudelaire has, emerged
as a result of some events, and he tries to investigate which of them come from his own
behavior and which of them come from the behavior of others.