The paper proposes a rereading of the tension between poetry and prose in Baudelaire, taking as its starting point the opposition between "cats" and "dogs", recurring characters in the poet’s work. With/ against Baudelaire, the author argues for an affirmation of prose - "prose in prose(s)" - and the rejection, in contemporary poetry, of any instances of the "modern sublime".
Baudelaire; french poetry; prose poem; contemporary poetry