In creating these layers in both content and form, both Delacroix and Baudelaire construct works of art which become worlds unto themselves, with their own truths and limits, worlds where oppositions are blurred and recreated on the artist's own terms. ... Phrases such as "direct and terrible," "delicious death," "her red umbrella, filtering the light, rouges her face with a bloody glow," and "in harmony, she moves along, glad to be alive, smiling an empty smile," all serve to support the meaning and mood of this poem as slightly sour, positioning "Beautiful Dorothea" in a dream where t...

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• Grade Level: Graduate