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Baudelaire directs attention to the realm of “ugliness” by depicting, praising, and elevating it alongside beauty, urging readers to confront it directly. In The Flowers of Evil, ugliness is explored through environment and image: a decaying Paris of the underclass, the “greatness” of Satan, and marginalized figures such as beggars, prostitutes, drunkards, and gamblers become key objects of aesthetic analysis.","The Ugly Qualities in Baudelaire's the Flowers of Evil  \nYuxuan Gao  \nSchool of Literature, Journalism and Communication, Qingdao University, Qingdao, 266071, Keywords: Baudelaire; The Flower of Evil; ugly imagery; aesthetic ugliness  \nAbstract: “Ugliness” is an aesthetic category for discordant things, and an important way to see the world. Poet Baudelaire turned his attention to the world of “ugliness”, depicting it, praising it and celebrating it, putting it on the same level as beauty, and daring readers to face it directly. In The Flowers of Evil, Baudelaire shows his exploration of ugliness from two dimensions: environment and image. He turns his attention to the crumbling Paris after the miserable life of the underclass and praises the “greatness” of Satan. Beggars, prostitutes, drunkards and gamblers, all of whom were previously reviled in literature, become the objects of Baudelaire's profound analysis. Baudelaire tries to excavate beauty from these ugly phenomena, opening the door of aesthetics to the examination of ugliness.  \n1. Introduction  \nBaudelaire was the most famous modernist poet in France in the nineteenth century and the pioneer of symbolist poetry. He was in a special era, when Romanticism had begun to ebb and flow, classicism was about to make a comeback, aestheticism had already made its debut, and realism had not yet dominated the world, so his thought was characterized by the complexity of the times, which also made Baudelaire's aesthetic thought have a profound impact on the later generations. His collection of poems The Flowers of Evil not only has an important position in the European and American poetry world, but also known as one of the most influential collections of poems in the nineteenth century. At the same time, as an aesthetic critic, Baudelaire's aesthetic thoughts and theories have played an important role in promoting the development of modern poetry and aesthetics. As a product of Baudelaire's aesthetic thought and practice, the most profound and influential feature of The Flowers of Evil is the imagery of “ugliness”. The poet finds beauty in ugliness and goodness in evil. Therefore, the imagery of “ugliness” has an aesthetic character after artistic processing, which makes Baudelaire open the door of “ugliness” for the world of poetry and aesthetics, and it is of great value.  \nBaudelaire, as a pioneer of symbolism, discovered “another world”. He did not deny the reality of“our world”, but he believed that behind “our world” there exists “another world”, which is more real. Baudelaire pointed out that the purpose of poetry is only itself: A whole crowd of people imagine that the aim of poetry is some sort of lesson, that its duty is to fortify conscience, or to perfect social behavior, or even briefly look into ourselves... poetry will be seen to have no other aim but itself[1] . Baudelaire depicted many ugly imagery in his poems, which not only broadened the field of imagery expression, but also pioneered the artistic creation and practice of ugliness, opening the door of aesthetic ugliness for the aesthetic world. By applying the imagery of ugliness to poetry, he opened up the field of aesthetics to the imagery of ugliness, decadence, horror, and  \n64  \ngrotesque, etc., and used ugliness as beauty. This is not only an impact on people's traditional aesthetics, but also a deep reflection and in-depth excavation of the society and people's mental state at that time. It is with the change of the times and the increase of people's experience that they gradually realize that the ugliness in Baudelaire's poems reflects the ugliness of the society and human nature, which is the result of the change of aesthetic ugliness with the change of the times and the subject, as well as the result of the development of aesthetic value of the ugliness itself. Through the examination of the ugly images in Baudelaire's poem The Flowers of Evil, we will explore the meaning and value hidden in the dept","cbCaiqw0o01LV1We","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiqw0o01LV1We","pdf",1721270,6,1,7,"English","en",105,"# Introduction\n# The ugliness of the environment in The Flowers of Evil\n## The Horrors of Hell","[{\"question\":\"How does “ugliness” operate as an aesthetic category in Baudelaire’s work?\",\"answer\":\"“Ugliness” is treated as an aesthetic category for discordant things and as a meaningful lens for understanding the world. Baudelaire depicts and elevates it rather than excluding it from poetry.\"},{\"question\":\"Which two dimensions does the document use to analyze Baudelaire’s ugliness in The Flowers of Evil?\",\"answer\":\"The document analyzes ugliness from two dimensions: the environment and the image. 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