CRITICAL BAUDELAIRE OF MODERN SOCIETY: READERS.

Abstract

In Baudelaire's poetry, metaphors of death, destruction, degeneration, putrefaction and the skull are present. They are more than adequate allegories to show what happened to the body of the city. They are figurative fragments shown scattered, without form, but never a complete image - and this gives them an allegorical character. The image is fragment, ruin. It is important to emphasize that this overcoming can only be accomplished in the textual practice itself; for this reason, writers are considered by Roland Barthes (1987) as those who came closest to the construction of urban semiotics. Baudelaire gave himself over to everything with great passion. He plunged into the streets of Paris in search of experiences that could be added to his poetic work: he loved all the life that flourished in the underworld of the metropolis. Paradoxically, with an unusual ability to change direction substantially, Baudelaire wanted to live all experiences, but at the same time, he knew that discipline could not be lost. The city in Baudelaire could only take shape in fantasy: it was the world in which "new palaces, scaffolding, blocks of stone, old suburbs, for me become allegories"; it was a “scenario like the actor's soul”, a scenario whose turn transformed the actor into his own form.