1. Coincidentia Oppositorum: The Layering of Contrasts in Paint
But Baudelaire moves slowly into the interior of Dorothea in terms of her body and her interior space - first he hints at the shape of her body underneath her dress and lifts her skirt to reveal "a shining, splendid leg," then he penetrates her "little cottage so coquettishly arranged," and finally the speaker pierces her physical exterior and enters her mind, letting the reader enter her thoughts and frustrations: "she"d be perfectly happy if she were not obliged to save, piaster by piaster, to buy her little sister." ... Both Baudelaire and Delacroix describe visually the details of the wom...
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