Comparative Literature

Both terms acted as a beginning of a new era. It broke the conventional pattern that many had been following for ages with or with knowing the meanings. From Aesthetic P.O.V, two divisions can be ruled out: 1. Breaking the pattern or search for the higher truth or better results, where both terms began not by developing into a new era but by questioning. 2. Though it broke the pattern and questioned the traditional practices, it again falls into the same category just by adding a fancy twist.

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Neuroses? Are the geniuses of all over the world really ill?"If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you"(Kipling R)."Flowers of Evil" is all the variations and nuances of spiritual states of a modern human, broken consciousness of the whole generation, a strong sense of modernity, inducing Baudelaire to reject "Parisian ideal " of the Beautiful. "Lucifer slumbers at the bottom of every human soul", that is a duel must be: the idea of searching, aspiration to cognition of the world in the name of the assertion of value of life. Innovation is a foundation of a poetic image, merging of a human being with the world, synesthesia, suggestive magic, suggestive allegory. "A modern manner to feel" is a main thing for Baudelaire. A meaning of truth is important.The Strange is a part of Beautiful^:"When I create pain, I create beauty." Beauty is above good and evil. It's balanced with the infinite. At first Baudelaire interpreted the name as "aversion for evil", then - "to retrieve beauty from evil".It's a mirror, where every can see oneself "(Lombroso). Innovation is neither antithesis, nor duality of the world, but it's analogy, assimilation, parallelism (Lukov V). "That there is at the bottom is similar to the top and v.v"(Trismegist G.). "Evil is good, good is evil"(Shakespeare, Gogol, Berdyaev). Evil is universal, because it is not only in the surrounding world, in the deformity of social being, in the spontaneous natural force, but also in a human oneself. A human is double, he rushes about good and evil. "the main tragedy is that the world lost the harmony and unity of spiritual world"(antinomy) (Yakubovich P). He doesn't condemn a man, he compassionates with one. "And mercy begged of Justice in her blindness"(Pushkin A). Evil is universal, it's one of the sides of being. There are pangs of conscience after them. Conscience is a voice of God. "I dedicate these sickly flowers"(verses)."Flowers of the Earth don't know mud"(Mickelangelo). "As if you only can know, in what mud verses are growing without shame"(Akhmadulina B). Baudelaire: "the evil, germinating through a human soul, and generating pangs of conscience, despair, melancholy is spleen".May be is it a kind of catharsis ?(Aristotle). Bad tempers are improved through laughter. May be, through aversion for evil by means of over-naturalistic, pathological, mad representation of evil? Baudelaire - innovator uses Brechtian method "die Verfremdung: "Is an actor responsible for the roles of the criminals, who he has played? Did I have a right or even have to adopt my intellect and talent to various sophisms and forms of corruption of my century?"To us,creative personalities are heritage and progress of humanity, but often some people begin to appreciate a genius after one's death, they dare to label one,savor a private life.Baudelaire:"The most ruthless accusation is in contempt for people and in aversion for the world. They judged about Poe, ascribing the characters of the personages to him. It's one of the most ineffective battles". Rough diktat of reality, bending and spoiling a creator is a reason of loneliness. "Society doesn't like incorrigible unlucky persons. It's characteristic of a definite incompatibility of a human with the world.Poe wrote in the style which was too elevating over the mediocre intellectual level so that they could pay him well."(Baudelaire) Poe:"How it smells of mean-spirited store". After all, "literary life is the only environment, where a superior soul from the declasse can breathe"(Bataille). "Evil is Baudelaire's aspiration to become a thing, that he has been for others.Compensation of Being is an object of a genius, tension, poetic weakness. Poetry is as compensation of an individual"(Sartre), because "desire of the impossible is fatal". "This poverty-stricken life" (Baudelaire) is a desire of the impossible to his death."The most cherished is to be as a stone, as a sculpture in the relaxed calmness of stability." The favorite image is a beast, which is trapped. A.Camus: "It's an acquisition of integrity against the background of disintegration in social consciousness". "To live and die in front of the mirror: he is acting his own life, because he can't live it". "Life proves that the elite have a talent, virtue, calling, they are marked with God's grace. In spite of it, society brings them to special anathema and accuses them of the illnesses, which have been evoked by its own suppression... If the folks have no aristocracy, the cult of Beautiful will be doomed to degeneration, crumbling up, death". Poe and Baudelaire had been aristocrats to their death. Strikingly integral, truthful dandy Baudelaire didn't betray his friends, wife, own father, own creative credo, talent, he remained forever one. Deceived (instead of 500 he received 50 for lectures!), unrecognized, sick, lonely, ruined by life he divided his miserable salary into 4 parts:for mother, for wife, for friends(not long before death).Poe didn't betray a memory of his departed wife for the sake of a new profitable marriage. Date obolum Belisario. Letum non omnia finit. "It's Death that comforts us, alas! and makes us live".