Correspondences (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Charles Baudelaire
- First Published: 1857
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Language or languages, Nature, Communication, Poetry or poets, Symbolism, Forests or forestry, Senses or sensation, Smell, Odors
The Poem
“Correspondences” is a sonnet, its fourteen lines divided into two quatrains and two tercets, in the rhyme pattern abba, cddc, efe, fgg. One of the most influential poems in modern literature, it has been translated into English in many forms: un-rhymed free verse, sonnet rhyme patterns, and prose. The American poet George Dillon, for example, kept the original French twelve-syllable line but changed the rhyme pattern to abba, cddc, efg, efg.
The title names the topic of the poem—the discovery that one makes during certain states of mind that...
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