This collection includes "Reversibility," (*) "Correspondences," and a poem that describes the title creature's "great white wings / dragging beside them like oars."
The narrator of one poem in this collection asks if angels of gaiety, kindness, health and beauty have known such ill powers as "anguish" and "Old Age." Another poem from this collection compares the coolness of the "flesh of children" and the sweetness of "oboes" to perfumes. This collection includes "Reversibility," (*) "Correspondences," and a poem that describes the title creature's "great white wings / dragging beside them like oars." For 10 points, name this poetry collection containing such poems as "The Albatross" and "To The Reader," written by Charles Baudelaire.
The narrator of one poem in this collection asks if angels of gaiety, kindness, health and beauty have known such ill powers as "anguish" and "Old Age."
Les Fleurs du mal [or The Flowers of Evil