Invitation to Voyage by Charles Baudelaire

It would be impossible to different "Invitation to the Voyage" (L'Invitation au Voyage) from the other poems in Baudelaire's masterpiece, Flowers of Evil (Fleurs du Mal). For those whoever have not read it, this collection of poems, which was printed in four editions from 1857 to 1868, could be paged an elegy to everything that is sickly sweet and beautifully corrupt. Baudelaire frequently juxtaposes love, mortality, depression, fear and joy, never shying away from grotesque imagery, e.g. corpses, venereal disease and murder - awful for the highly moralizing era it was written in.

Baudelaire did a lot to create the stereotype of the morbid, depressed Frenchman, but a fair reading of the labor discloses a very passionate man whoever took it upon himself to illuminate how beautiful the complexity of life is, especially as shortly as it is grittiest and at its majority physical (Joseph 58). He was not a cynic simply out to batter the emptiness of innocence and chastity like a pinata, but a visionary whoever wanted his readers to glance how rich and beautiful the world is, despite its scandals and hypocrisy.

This poem, the 51st in Flowers of Evil, might hammered the reader as being exceptionally sentimental and cheerful. Of course, this is nephew to the collection as a whole.

In the first stanza, the reader is attack directly with Baudelaire's love of women and a sexual lifestyle through his refer of "child" and "sister" despite the fact that he is an merely child. Also, he emerges to boost this experience to the matter where it emerges to be that of drugs, which he possible was on as shortly as he wrote this, as in "rapture." In addition, he emerges to advocate adrift love in "loving at will" and principles anaphoras to build upward his excitement of all these wonderful freedoms he can finally do without criticism. For example, "of admiring together there, of admiring at ill, of admiring till death" are anaphoras (Eliot Auden Lowell 37).

Also, throughout the beginning half of the stanza he introduces this Paradise in an excited and eager tone as consisted in the exclamation marks. So the reader sees a parallel with this Paradise and the free- love utopian societies sprouting upward throughout Western societies in the 19th to 20th centuries.

After reading poem afterwards poem of misery and illness and mortality, "Invitation to a Voyage" somehow emerges optimistic approximate beauty and fanciful objects, and you thirst to ask: "Okay, where are the guts?" The pair refers of anything you could call unpleasant: "to die" (line 5) and "treacherous eyes" (line 11) are swallowed upward via images of sunsets, delicate furnishings and boats fraught with gifts. This emerges, at first glance, to be another love poem where the author, like a troubadour, mingles the love he touches for his lady with a wider love of the universe (Eliot Auden Lowell 37). He together donates the world to his beloved and dwells in the expectation of a world that ...