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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.
Engraving by Gustave Doré for an 1876 edition of the poem. The Albatross depicts 17 sailors on the deck of a wooden ship facing an albatross. Icicles hang from the rigging. "The Albatross about my Neck was Hung", etching by William Strang, published 1896. The sailors change their minds again and blame the mariner for the torment of their thirst.
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.
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Simon Hatley (27 March 1685 – after 1723) was an English sailor involved in two hazardous privateering voyages to the South Pacific Ocean.On the second voyage, with his ship beset by storms south of Cape Horn, Hatley shot an albatross, an incident immortalised by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his 1798 poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
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)
Chairil Anwar (26 July 1922 – 28 April 1949) was an Indonesian poet and member of the "1945 Generation" of writers.He is estimated to have written 96 works, including 70 individual poems.