1. Coincidentia Oppositorum: The Layering of Contrasts in Paint
... sand is dazzling and the sea shimmers." 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 ... only flesh that is exposed besides their faces is their limbs, depicted in an unfeminine manner, desexualizing them. While clothing in Baudelaire's poem both clings to Dorothea and gives her shape - "her clinging dress of lig...
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- Grade Level: Graduate