Le Vin

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Le Vin is a section of Charles Baudelaire’s poetry collection Les Fleurs du mal that explores themes of intoxication, escape, and existential despair through the motif of wine.

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Le Vin canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf poetry cycle
section of a poetry collection
addresses decadence
human condition
moral ambiguity
associatedWithAuthorWork Spleen et Idéal
author Charles Baudelaire
centralImageFunction wine as catalyst of vision
wine as false salvation
wine as means of escape
containedInEdition Les Fleurs du mal, 1857
linked to: Les Fleurs du mal

Les Fleurs du mal, 1861
Les Fleurs du mal, posthumous editions
contrasts momentary ecstasy with enduring despair
countryOfOrigin France
exploresRelationBetween body and soul
pleasure and pain
reality and dream
firstPublication Les Fleurs du mal (1857 edition)
linked to: Les Fleurs du mal
hasCanonicalStatusIn Baudelaire’s oeuvre
French poetry canon
influenced later Symbolist poets
modernist treatments of intoxication
language French
literaryForm lyric poetry
literaryMovement French Romanticism (late phase)
linked to: French Romanticism

Symbolism precursor
literaryPeriod 19th-century French literature
motif drunkenness
inebriation as spiritual experience
wine
partOf Les Fleurs du mal
setWithin overall structure of Les Fleurs du mal
theme alienation
escape
existential despair
intoxication
modern urban life
search for transcendence
suffering
tone ironic
melancholic
tragic
uses extended metaphor of wine

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Les Fleurs du mal section Le Vin
Révolte relatedWork Le Vin
La Mort relatedWork Le Vin