Bauudelaire Beauty

The Complexity of Beauty One of the most common phrases about beauty in today’s society is “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” Beauty includes a certain subjective aspect in which people are able to construct what they wish beauty to be. The phrase “beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” allows for one person to admire beauty in one way while another person could admire something entirely differently. However, those who perceive beauty as a more complex idea that deals with the layer of its underlying power have challenged the idea of beauty being limited to one element. This counter perspective on the more complex aspects of beauty being in psychical and metaphorical ways can be seen in the examination of one of the many translation
Strum’s translation tries to convey the meaning Baudelaire intended, which was that beauty is its own entity transcending all common thoughts related to it. Baudelaire’s meaning is demonstrated in beauty’s occupation of a higher seat in the hierarchy of man, the personification of beauty within the realms of allowing her to create a self-constructing mirror, and the shifting nature of beauty in stanza development. Baudelaire’s personification of beauty gives it power to develop its complexity, in which beauty is no longer being constructed by the beholder -- rather, it is self-constructing. Within Strum’s translation of Baudelaire’s meaning, beauty’s power over the interpreter places her at a superior level over the rest of the world. In the first stanza, beauty starts off right away by placing herself in a higher ranking, stating, “I am as lovely, o
This perfect rhyme is used by Strum in his translation of “Beauty” by Baudelaire. The form Baudelaire uses allows for the translation to follow a perfect rhyme between the lines “a dream in stone/a love as lone” (Sturm lines 1&3) or “no one knows/movements that disturb my pose” (Sturm lines 5&7). The perfect rhyme used by Baudelaire grants the reader the capability of reading through the poem with little difficulty. He accomplishes the perfect rhyme through the different consonants being followed by identical vowel/consonant sounds, such as dies and eyes or knows and pose. The use of perfect rhyme mirrors the effortlessness of reading the poem, to the effortlessness readers experience in regards to liking the poem. With the perfect rhyme offering little difficulty, Baudelaire uses this advantage to compare how effortless it is to be captivated by Beauty’s perfection as well. The perfect rhyme used by Baudelaire’s form matches with the content of beauty being more complex in regards to the rhyme being a similarity to Beauty’s characteristics. The perfect rhyme from lines such as “flames and dies/my luminous eyes” (Sturm line 13-14) help contribute the same message across, which is beauty is perfect in its own self set limits. The effect of conveying the message across by the form of the lines is