In Les Petits Poèmes en prose , Baudelaire becomes a man in the street, prowler, voyeur and seer. It is in the big, fascinating and repulsive city - Paris in this case -, and no longer in the spectacle of nature, that he seeks his inspiration. It is there, in this place of debauchery and wandering from which beauty sometimes emerges, that he widens the field of interior experience. Turning his back on conventional poetry, he then entered modernity.
