In addition to "The Voyage" and "The Swan," this collection's opening poem mentions a personification who "dreams of scaffolds as he smokes his hookah pipe," and addresses you as the "Hypocrite reader!"
The final poem of this collection begins: "to a child who is fond of maps and engravings / the universe is the size of his immense hunger." Another poem in this collection, from which six "condemned poems" were excised after its first edition, compares the decline of his home city to the fall of Andromache and includes an image of the title bird "reproaching God." In addition to "The Voyage" and "The Swan," this collection's opening poem mentions a personification who "dreams of scaffolds as he smokes his hookah pipe," and addresses you as the "Hypocrite reader!" For 10 points, name this collection which popularized the term ennui, whose sections "Wine," "Death," "Revolt," and "Spleen and Ideal" were penned by French Symbolist poet Charles Baudelaire.
The final poem of this collection begins: "to a child who is fond of maps and engravings / the universe is the size of his immense hunger."
The Flowers of Evil [or Les Fleurs du Mal]