... Romantic themes did not extend to the Romantic reverence for nostalgia and memory. A vast amount of his poetry refers to some sort of lost paradise. His poem, La chevelure, exemplifies such a fact as it recalls brief moments of pure happiness in distant tropical locations. Baudelaire also alleged that memory played a significant role when being related to imagination. His belief that imagination must accompany ... to both the deceased and the decaying things that surrounded him. Like many other writers in his period, Baudelaire, due to his theory of beauty and its role in poetry, would ...

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