French Poet (1821 - 1867)
Charles Baudelaire combined a rhythmical and musical perfection with a morbid romanticism and eroticism. In his most famous work he found beauty in decadence and evil, although the average reader will be surprised to discover a tendency to moralize in some of his other work.
The River Lethe flowed through the plain of Lethe in Hades. Also known as the Ameles potamos (river of unmindfulness), the river flowed around the cave of Hypnos where its murmuring induces drowsiness. The shades of the dead were required to drink from its water in order to forget their earthly life. Poets frequently use Lethe as a metaphor for the underworld in general...
Today, we call these times on the river of unmindfulness,
senior moments on a boat...
LOL!
I love Baudelaire, but these french poets could be a little pretentious or should I say nouveau-riche...
Peace
Dylan
