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To love at leisure, love and die in that land that resembles you! For me, damp suns in disturbed skies share mysterious charms with your treacherous eyes as they shine through tears. There, there’s only order, beauty: abundant, calm, voluptuous.
The poem opens gently, addressing the beloved as “My child, my sister.” She is invited to dream of the sweetness of another place, to live, to love, and to die in a land which resembles her.
Glory! Love!" - it's just a bank of sand! Each little island sighted by the watch at night Becomes an Eldorado, is in his belief The Promised Land; Imagination soars; despite The fact that every dawn reveals a barren reef. Poor fellow, sick with love for that which never was! Put him in irons - must we? — throw him overboard?
An analysis of the Invitation to a journey poem by Charles Baudelaire including schema, poetic form, metre, stanzas and plenty more comprehensive statistics.
Charles Baudelaire. Invitation to the Voyage. My child, my sister, Think of the rapture Of living together there! Of loving at will, Of loving till death, In the land that is like you! The misty sunlight Of those cloudy skies Has for my spirit the charms, So mysterious, Of your treacherous eyes, Shining brightly through their tears.
10 kwi 2024 · To love, till we die, In the land which resembles thee. Those suns that rise 'Neath erratic skies, —No charm could be like unto theirs— So strange and divine, Like those eyes of thine Which glow in the midst of their tears. There, all is order and loveliness, Luxury, calm and voluptuousness. The tables and chairs, Polished bright by the years,
Baudelaire’s three love cycles reflect his experiences with three different women—Duval, Daubrun, and Mme Sabatier—and discussions of his love poems are often organized around the poems associated with each woman.
