... many of his thoughts and ideas into his own poetry. Like Poe, Baudelaire disliked the romantic reverence for spontaneity and inspiration. His belief that creation was impossible without the insertion of forms of discipline provoked him to repeatedly revise his poems. Although he upheld imagination and trance, he insisted that perfection had to be achieved by use of a technique. Baudelaire also rejected ... poets who loved the city, regardless of how corrupt it was. This is also made apparent in both Petit poemes en prose and Le spleen de Paris, a collection of prose poems in which he se...

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... . [1]" Bierce's use of specific details presented in the story and the diction used is important to the style of realism as compared to Edgar Allan Poe's poems of romanticism. In Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabel Lee", Poe uses a lot of crafting of language, where as Bierce uses language that is vernacular to the time period and setting. Most of the sentences are ... of the protagonist. Farquhar's belief in his escape show how powerful the human mind is and how it shapes reality. In comparison to "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allen Poe, Poe uses unrealistic description of setting to emphasize his poin...

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