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My child, my sister,
\nImagine how sweet
\nTo go and live there together!
\nTo love at leisure,
\nTo love and to die
\nIn that land resembling you!<\/p>\n
Imagine wet suns
\nThrough disturbed skies
\nThat I find full of charms
\nSo mysterious\u00a0
\nAs your treacherous\u00a0
\nEyes that shine through your tears.<\/p>\n
Order and beauty are there
\nLuxury, calm, and sensuousness.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Shiny furniture,
\nWell polished by years,
\nWould decorate our bedroom;
\nWith rarest flowers,
\nMixing their odors
\nTo the vague perfume of amber.<\/p>\n
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\nThere richest ceilings
\nAnd deepest mirrors\u00a0
\nOffer some eastern splendor
\nEverything would touch
\nSecretly our souls
\nSpeaking their sweet native language.<\/p>\n
Order and beauty are there,
\nLuxury, calm, and sensuousness.<\/p>\n
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See on these canals
\nThose sleeping dinghies
\nLooking moody and vagabond\u00a0
\nJust to satisfy
\nYour smallest desire
\nThey come from the end of the world.<\/p>\n
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Now you see sunsets
\nClothing all the fields
\nThe canals, and the whole city
\nIn hyacinth and gold\u00a0
\nAsleep is the world
\nWith such a warm light all over.<\/p>\n
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Order and beauty are there,
\nLuxury, calm, and sensuousness.<\/p>\n
Charles Baudelaire, translate by Xavier S\u00e9guin<\/p>\n
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Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) in one of his most famous poems, expresses his crazy desire to go and live elsewhere, with a loved person he calls “my child, my sister”<\/em>. Baudelaire proposes a route, a project of life, and in a certain way, a request for marriage or the recognition of a union. The paintings that illustrate this article are the work of Thomas Cole (1801-1848) entitled The Journey of Life<\/em>. This work has a wider scope, human life in general, in a more individual perspective: the central character is male and has no companion.<\/p>\n Despite these differences – or because of them – it seemed to me interesting to juxtapose these two works that date from the same period –and which both focus on the main component of human existence, as seen by a great British painter and a great French poet.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A poem by Charles Baudelaire and paintings by Thomas Cole, The Voyage Of Life<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3467],"tags":[261,2913,256],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24771"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52184,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24771\/revisions\/52184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}