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DESIRE TO PAINT by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Poet Analysis

First Line: UNHAPPY PERHAPS THE MAN, BUT HAPPY THE ARTIST SHATTERED BY DESIRE
Last Line: PLEASURE FROM THEM; BUT THIS ONE AROUSES THE DESIRE TO DIE SLOWLY UNDER HER GAZE

Poem Sources:

THE PARISIAN PROWLER. EDWARD K. KAPLAN (TR.)
  BAUDELAIRE, CHARLES
  (1997)
 



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