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L'Albatros (French for The Albatross) is a poem by decadent French poet Charles Baudelaire. [ 1 ] The poem, inspired by an incident on Baudelaire's trip to Bourbon Island in 1841, was begun in 1842 but not completed until 1859 with the addition of the final verse.
Baudelaire was born in Paris, France, on 9 April 1821, and baptized two months later at Saint-Sulpice Roman Catholic Church. [5] His father, Joseph-François Baudelaire (1759–1827), [6] a senior civil servant and amateur artist, who at 60, was 34 years older than Baudelaire's 26-year-old mother, Caroline (née Dufaÿs) (1794–1871); she was his second wife.
The Cinq poèmes de Charles Baudelaire constitute a song cycle for voice and piano by Claude Debussy, on poems taken from Les Fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire.Composed from December 1887 to March 1889, these five highly developed vocal pieces were not well received by Parisian musical circles because of the Wagnerian influence they revealed.
Category: Poetry by Charles Baudelaire. ... L'albatros (poem) Les Fleurs du mal; L. Les Litanies de Satan; S. Le Spleen de Paris; The Swan (Baudelaire)
Scotland Yard believes the killer to be influenced by the 19th-century poet Charles Baudelaire's, The Flowers of Evil. In Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 film Pierrot le Fou , central character Ferdinand attends a dinner party, where he ends up having a conversation with the American filmmaker Samuel Fuller (played by himself).
Charles Baudelaire's collection of poems Les Fleurs du mal contains a poem entitled "L'Albatros" (1857) about men on ships who catch the albatrosses for sport. In the final stanza, he goes on to compare the poets to the birds — exiled from the skies and then weighed down by their giant wings, till death.
Le Spleen de Paris, also known as Paris Spleen or Petits Poèmes en prose, is a collection of 50 short prose poems by Charles Baudelaire. The collection was published posthumously in 1869 and is associated with literary modernism .
L'albatros, to words by Charles Baudelaire (1879) Le rideau de ma voisine, to words by Alfred de Musset (1879) Nous nous aimerons, to words by anon. (1882) Le mort maudit, to words by J. Richepin (1884) Epithalame, to words by Bouchor (1886) Marins dévots à la Vierge, to words by L.-P. Fargue (1898)