Le Voyage

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"Le Voyage" is the concluding, philosophically charged poem in Charles Baudelaire's collection *Les Fleurs du mal*, exploring themes of escape, disillusionment, and the search for the unknown.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf lyric poem
poem
author Charles Baudelaire NERFINISHED
closingConcept death as ultimate voyage
closingImage voyage toward the unknown
collectionPublicationYear 1857
countryOfOrigin France
genre modern poetry
symbolist poetry
includedInEdition 1857 edition of Les Fleurs du mal
1861 edition of Les Fleurs du mal
influenced later symbolist poets
modernist poets
influencedBy Romanticism
urban modernity
language French
literaryMovement Modernism precursor
Symbolism NERFINISHED
literaryStatus key text of Les Fleurs du mal
major poem of French literature
meter French alexandrine
narrativeVoice first-person plural
notableLine "Au fond de l’Inconnu pour trouver du nouveau!"
partOf Les Fleurs du mal NERFINISHED
philosophicalOrientation existential
pessimistic
philosophicalTheme confrontation with the infinite
illusion of novelty
inadequacy of travel to cure boredom
positionInWork concluding poem of Les Fleurs du mal
revisedCollectionPublicationYear 1861
rhymeScheme regular rhyme
structure multiple sections
theme boredom
critique of reality
death
desire for the absolute
disillusionment
escape
exile
failure of experience
metaphysical quest
modern ennui
search for the unknown
travel
tone contemplative
ironic
melancholic
workContext final section of Les Fleurs du mal

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Les Fleurs du mal notablePoem Le Voyage
Jeanne Duval inspiredWork Le Voyage