The fifth article in chapter three of our text Pursuing Happiness, edited by Matthew Parfitt and Dawn Skorczewski, presents Stefan Klein’s “Enjoyment.” When writing of the natural opiates produced within the brain, he brings up the French poet Charles Baudelaire. The excerpts from the poem “But get drunk” and the mention of Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) and the fact that it was considered scandalous had me wanting to know more about his life, his works and his impact on the world. Charles Baudelaire was born the only son of François Baudelaire and Caroline Defayis on April 9th, 1821 in Paris France. His father was a painter and poet of moderate capability, and so he exposed his son to the arts, and he took to them with a passion. …show more content…
He was prone to bouts of great depression and despair, the greatest of witch come from his debts (“Charles,” Poetry, “Charles,” Encyclopedia). Four women were important to Charles in his life, Caroline his mother, Jeanne a sensual, passionate, exciting mistress, Apollonie, a woman of the word who Baudelaire had a platonic affection for, and Marie, an actress of substantial beauty and one great success. They would inspire his poetry and become almost mythical in it (Poggenburg, “Introduction to: Charles Baudelaire: Une Micro-Histoire”). In the last seventeen months of his life a stroke reduced him to an incoherent expression of himself, and it was not until after his death that his complete works was published (“Charles,” …show more content…
He brought Poe’s to France, he inspired not just poets but painters as well. Seemed to predict the impressionist style a decade before the actual emergence of it in his “Salon de 1859” and “Le Peintre de la vie moderne” (“The Painter of Modern Life”) (“Charles,” Encyclopedia). His foresight when writing on art was tremendous. The work of Baudelaire is a link between romanticism and modernism through both his life and his work. He was a catalyst for the work of Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, Stéphane Mallarmé, and Algernon Charles Swinburne in the 19th century, and for Paul Valéry, Rainer Maria Rilke, and T. S. Eliot in the 20th century. He was pivotal in European literature and thought, from the Encyclopedia Britannica information this caused a move away from the romantic poetry of statement and emotion to the modern poetry of symbol and suggestion. These where the things that broadened our notions of what poetry could be, not just beautiful and sweet, but gritty and real (Poggenburg, “Introduction to: Charles Baudelaire: Une
Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most influential writers to date. His thrill filled tales of darkness and death helped people see a different side of romantic literature. Many believe that his isolated life and drinking problem helped influence his works. Poe showed his most prominent life accomplishment and disappointments through his life in his stories. He defined a lot of his life’s parallels through his works.
Poe became a huge role model in American romance literature. "Edgar Allan Poe helped to establish the image of the Romantic artist as a being who not only created art from the essence of his own personal suffering but also came to define him through this suffering." (Magistrale 1). Poe's life and all his heartbreaks and suffrage through it all are what made him such a good writer. He wrote about sad, depressing, dreary feelings because that is how his childhood and later life was.
What inspires artistic genius? Some proclaim God, others beauty, many believe instanity, and a few say….mind altering drinks. One cannot but notice the companionship of alchohol with music, literature, and poetry. During the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, Absinthe was the beverage of choice for many prominent artists, and was at the center of the lives of such famous minds as Degas, Manet, Gauguin, and Poe. Le Feé Verte (its pseudonym, meaning green fairy) while immensly popular at one point, was prohibited because of its dangerous side effects and “immoral” connotations. However, its sudden come back in Europe and the U.S. has only reaffirmed its symbol as a drink for artistic revolution and just plain drunkeness.
...eality was about the horrors and trepidations that have consumed a once healthy society, but he never noticed that there is a different side to reality. It is about friendship, free will, and compassion. The true meaning of joyfulness is to experience new things like going into the wild, but to experience them with another human being. This is the most fulfilling aspect of life because a person is impacting not only his/her life, but also the life of another. When a person joins the amorous aspects of reality, and then mixes it into commencing and enveloping the freedom that nature has to offer, only then will he/she truly have a life of pleasure and contentment.
Even though a good number of critics despise Edgar Allen Poe with a passion, almost all who read his creations gave him credit for being a genius. He was the first to write a detective story and tales that dealt with split personality or divided consciousness way before the matter was well known by the common people. He managed to capture the imagination of the public by exploring the mysterious psychological world of the individual -- madness, despair, pain, inner chaos, etc. His works, which lack a sense of right or wrong, had great influence upon some types of popular fiction, with a detective story on the lead. Ranging from French symbolists, like Rimbrad and Mallarme, to American writers, such as Bierce, Melville, and Faulkner, were influenced by Poe's writings. He even inspired well-known Philosophers like Frederick Nietzsche and George Bernard Shaw. Just to mention a few, gothic architecture, psychological abnormalities, hidden...
Pablo Picasso was born in 1881 in Malaga, Spain, to an artist and museum curator, Jose Ruiz Blasco. As a young child he surprised his elders with his astounding artistic abilities; and, as Rachel Barnes points out in her introduction to Picasso by Picasso: Artists by Themselves, there seemed to be no doubt that Picasso would become a painter.
Ultimately as I read it “Brave New world” by Aldous Huxley, seems to say how Aldous Huxley perceives how the future would be. I have trouble accepting this proposition, however on the grounds that Huxley has a unique, yet very creative on the way he wrote this fictional novel. Many individuals who enjoy Huxley bizarre style of enjoy this novel; I would say that he has an intelligent way of concocting Brave new world together. The essence of this novel can portray upon how there will always be a price to pay when you want happiness. A great president once said, “ Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be” (Abraham Lincoln). Basically what this great president is trying to say is, to determine happiness is based on the
In Civilization and Its Discontents (Ch. 2), Sigmund Freud argues that happiness is routed in two basic ideas: the first having to do with no pain and the other having to do with pleasure. Along with his idea of what the root of happiness is, he also describes multiple ways this happiness can be attained. Freud states that love and beauty are both means of achieving happiness. Although love and beauty cannot completely prevent all worldly suffering, they both offer a powerful explanation that can help an individual determine the true meaning of their life. In this presentation, we will argue that this argument succeeds because true happiness is difficult to come by in this life, but things such as love and beauty provide a basis for passionate strife in an individual, while also causing an intoxicating kind of sensation that may lead to a definite meaning to Earthly existence for a human being.
To begin, Pasteur 's early life. He was born in Dole France, on December 27, 1822. His parents were Jean-Joseph Pasteur and Jeanne-Etiennette Roqui. He began primary school in 1831, and was mostly interested
Aldous Huxley Brave New World was published in 1932 depicting a utopian society. The title taken out of Shakespeare the tempest from one of Miranda’s famous quotes “o brave new world”. The story takes place in the year A.F 632 London, in a world were humans are no longer procreated and bearded by women but are generically reproduced along with having predestinated lives replacing the role of God who has also been eliminated along with religion all together eliminating traditional forms of happiness such as culture literature books traditions and morals only to be kept alive by those called savages ,people not part of the new world, in which one salvage named john is introduced to the New world. A world which has found happiness out of sex drugs and anything erotic. A world in which everyone has Identification, stability, and community. Happiness is an aspect of life that can only be obtained uniquely by every individual throughout sacredness and morals.
People thrived to experience life, and to seek out emotions, whether they were good or bad. This emotion and imagination of th...
The movie Pursuit of Happyness shows how a person became a homeless then eventually how he survived from being a homeless. Then, to being a multi millionaire. Even though he experienced how hard life can be he still pursued to reach his goals in his life for his son. This movie shows how a homeless person stand up and pursue to be successful.
considered to be a groundbreaking forefather of what has become the Romantic genre. His poetry and even paintings have been distinguished as ¨Pre Romantic¨ due to his aid the development of the Romantic Period.
Symbolist Movement: “A group of late 19th-century French writers, including Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé, who favored dreams, visions, and the associative powers of the imagination in their poetry. They rejected their predecessors’ tendency toward naturalism and realism, believing that the purpose of art was not to represent reality but to access greater truths by the “systematic derangement of the senses,” as Rimbaud described it. The translated works of Edgar Allan Poe influenced the French Symbolists” (“Symbolist Movement”).
(brainyquote.com) Charles Chaplin was born on April 16th, 1889 in London, England. (biography.com) His mother, Hannah Chaplin, was a singer and her stage name was Lily Harley. Charles Chaplin Senior, his father, was unfortunately a drunk and abandoned him and his family at a very young age. They had total of two kids together Charlie Jr.