This paper plays with the idea that Baudelaire’s prose poems bear an aggressive relation to The Flowers of Evil, inasmuch as the former recuperate the latter as narrative propositions, even if under the excuse of a search for a new musicality. An interesting conflict of codes is thus established in Baudelaire’s poetry. More than that, by means of the notion of poetic language prosification imposes itself as the best posterity.
Baudelaire; Prose poem; Prosification; Verse crisis