One of this author's works depicts Anguish planting her black flag on the speaker's bowed skull and begins by describing "when the low, heavy sky weighs like a lid / on the groaning spirit." In another of his poems, the title "kings of the sky, clumsy, ashamed, / Pathetically let their great white wings / Drag beside them l
One of this author's works depicts Anguish planting her black flag on the speaker's bowed skull and begins by describing "when the low, heavy sky weighs like a lid / on the groaning spirit." In another of his poems, the title "kings of the sky, clumsy, ashamed, / Pathetically let their great white wings / Drag beside them like oars" as sailors capture them. This author of "Litanies of Satan" and "The Albatross" opened one collection with a poem addressing the "hypocrite reader," which hails a type of boredom called ennui. For 10 points, name this French Symbolist poet, who included poems called "Spleen" in his collection Les Fleurs du mal.
One of this author's works depicts Anguish planting her black flag on the speaker's bowed skull and begins by describing "when the low, heavy sky weighs like a lid / on the groaning spirit.
Charles Pierre Baudelaire 