... painting with a specific place which he visited to locate each work in a specific historical setting at a certain time and place, but they also portray the setting in a dreamlike manner. The diction Baudelaire uses in "Beautiful Dorothea" conveys a multeity in unity that situates the world of the poem somewhere above or below reality. Phrases such as "direct and terrible," "delicious death," "her ... either the hot sun beats down or slowly baths the apartment in shadow - the reader or viewer of each work strains to wade through the detailed patterns of color or diction and syntax. Vibra...

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• Grade Level: Graduate