Why does the collection of Fleurs du mal have this audience today? Because it represents, since 1857, the birth of a new poetry. Baudelaire uses the classic forms - the sonnet, the alexandrine - to express modernity: the oddity, the immense cities, the discomfort of a painful existence. Faced with this anxiety, he offers us a way to overcome evil, self-loathing and self-loathing, “spleen”: the ideal of a language that would show us a dreamed elsewhere, a world that is finally habitable.
