Correspondences
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Correspondances is a poem by Baudelaire collected in Flowers of Evil. The poem introduced the Romantic notion that the senses can and should intermingle. Baudelaire probably learned of synesthesia from reading medical textbooks that were available in his home.
Baudelaire's poem speaks tellingly of forêts de symboles — forests of symbols —
- Il est des parfums frais comme des chairs d'enfants,
Doux comme les hautbois, verts comme les prairies,
— Et d'autres, corrompus, riches et triomphants,
Ayant l'expansion des choses infinies,
Comme l'ambre, le musc, le benjoin et l'encens,
Qui chantent les transports de l'esprit et des sens.(There are perfumes that are fresh like children's flesh,
sweet like oboes, green like meadows
— And others, corrupt, rich, and triumphant,
having the expansiveness of infinite things,
like amber, musc, benzoin, and incense,
which sing of the raptures of the soul and senses.)
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