The Balcony (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Charles Baudelaire
- First Published: 1857
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: France or French people, Love or romance, Europe or Europeans, Beauty, Women, Time, Sun, Night
The Poem
“The Balcony” first appeared as number 34 in the “Spleen and Ideal” section of the first, banned edition of Les Fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil, first translated in 1931) and as poem number 36 in the second, definitive edition (1861). The poem consists of six five-line stanzas in the “enveloped strophe” form—that is, the first line of each stanza reappears as its last line. The first, third, and fifth line of each stanza rhyme, as do the second and fourth.
In “The Balcony” a first-person voice, closely associated with the poet...
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