Les Yeux des pauvres

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Les Yeux des pauvres is a short prose poem by Charles Baudelaire that poignantly explores class disparity and emotional misunderstanding in a Parisian café setting.

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Les Yeux des pauvres canonical 2

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instanceOf literary work ⓘ
prose poem ⓘ
short story ⓘ
author Charles Baudelaire ⓘ
centralMotif eyes of the poor ⓘ
gaze ⓘ
contrasts empathy and cruelty ⓘ
wealth and poverty ⓘ
countryOfOrigin France ⓘ
depicts bourgeois café interior ⓘ
explores conflict between aesthetic pleasure and moral conscience ⓘ
incompatibility within romantic relationships ⓘ
featuresCharacter narrator's lover ⓘ
poor family ⓘ
firstPublicationCentury 19th century ⓘ
genre poetic prose ⓘ
prose poetry ⓘ
hasAuthorNationality French ⓘ
hasSubject modern city ⓘ
urban life ⓘ
influenced later prose poetry ⓘ
language French ⓘ
literaryDevice contrast ⓘ
interior monologue ⓘ
irony ⓘ
literaryPeriod 19th century ⓘ
movement Modernity literature ⓘ
Symbolism ⓘ
narrativePerspective first-person narrator ⓘ
originalTitleLanguage French ⓘ
partOf Le Spleen de Paris ⓘ
Petits poèmes en prose ⓘ
protagonist unnamed male narrator ⓘ
publicationForm collection ⓘ
relatedWorkByAuthor Le Spleen de Paris ⓘ
Les Fleurs du mal ⓘ
settingLocation Paris ⓘ
Parisian café ⓘ
theme alienation ⓘ
bourgeois society ⓘ
class disparity ⓘ
compassion ⓘ
emotional misunderstanding ⓘ
indifference ⓘ
social inequality ⓘ
tone bitter ⓘ
melancholic ⓘ

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Le Spleen de Paris → hasPart → Les Yeux des pauvres ⓘ
Petits poèmes en prose → hasPart → Les Yeux des pauvres ⓘ