... on the ideas and opinions that composers express within them. This is most notable when examining Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal (1857) and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1817). Both texts allude to the theme of religion and the role of women in society. However due to the 40 year gap between their respective compositions their views on the movement are quite apparently different. These ... 's all there is to tell? The curtain was raised and I was waiting still". Here Baudelaire questions the existence of God after interrupting the flow of his poem with a mid-line caesura. By using...

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Frankenstein (1817) by Mary Shelley and Les Fleurs du Mal (1957) by Charles Baudelaire can both be considered timeless in the eyes of contemporary society as they both discuss social issues that continue to be significant today. Traditional gender roles and the role of religion in society are both topics that ... uses synaesthesia as he relates visual beauty to nasal beauty, as well as choosing exotic scents to symbolise Duval's exotic African background. Converse to Shelley however, we see Baudelaire characterise women as superior to himself as a man when he writes "while other spirits sail ...

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