<Tab/>Baudelaire was a 19th century French poet who desired to write poetry in prose form, often challenging other authors to do so (Benjamin 165). He finally took on this ambitious objective himself when he wrote the book Twenty Prose Poems. The book consists of poetry without rhythm or rhyme. This seems to fit Baudelaire's style almost perfectly because he often wrote controversial and unexplainable poetry. Many of the poems have an initial meaning, visible to the reader at first glance. However some poems serve a greater purpose. This extra meaning comes from difficu…
