The Aesthetic Character Of The "ugly" Image Of The Flower Of Evil

Baudelaire is a famous French modernist poets in nineteenth Century.His poetry anthology The Flower of Evil was published, caused a sensationthroughout the French literature. He is regarded as forerunner of symbolist literaryand he is also a great aesthetic critic. He put the use of aesthetic theory to poetrycreation and he have made tremendous contributions on modern poetry andaesthetic ideology. In The Flower of Evil, the most profound and influential imageis the "ugly" image. After art creation, the "ugly" image has the aesthetic character.The poet dig out the beauty-in-the-evil. Baudelaire is a Lonely dandy, among theselect best. It has of great significance to open a "ugly" door for the world of poetryand aesthetic.This paper emphatically analyses the "ugly" image in The Flower of Evil. In thefirst part, through the understanding of various recognitions on the "ugly" imagefrom time immemorial, this paper explores why the "ugly" image can has theaesthetic character from time immemorial. This will provides more theory referencefor the "ugly" image in The Flower of Evil. The second part is of Baudelaire’spoetry theory, including the creating techniques of his poetry and analysis whyBaudelaire has a special enthusiasm on the "ugly" image. The third part of thispaper classifies the "ugly" image, and mades a in-depth analysis combined with theprevious content. Through this way, we will know how to have the aestheticcharacter.From hackling the "ugly" image in The Flower of Evil, the image of Baudelaireand his aesthetic thought have a clealy presentation. At the same time, this papermainly studies on how Baudelaire makes the "ugly" image having the aestheticcharacter.