| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 外國語文研究所 === 99 === Both Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Baudelaire emphasize their poetic effects on readers’ feelings and sentiments. Poe argues that a beautiful poem should be able to stimulate readers’ minds, and Baudelaire follows and continues Poe’s writing idea in his poems. Therefore, in this thesis, I will firstly demonstrate what Poe’s poetic idea of beauty is, how Baudelaire praises and follows, and how both Poe’s and Baudelaire’s writing ideas become the precursory ideas for decadent literature. After that, I will demonstrate how Poe and Baudelaire practice aesthetic belief in their poems about woman and explain how their writing techniques affect readers’ feelings and emotions. In addition, I will demonstrate how Baudelaire continues Poe’s writing idea to stimulate and excite people’s emotions in his poems about city experience and how he presents city experience to reach his ideal poetic effects. Besides, at the same time, I will use Carl Gustav Jung’s idea of archetypal effects to discuss and analyze the images and symbols that Poe and Baudelaire largely utilize in their poems in order to reach their ideal poetic effects. What is more, by utilizing Jung’s idea of archetypal effect as lens to symbolic effects, I will then explain and clarify how and why Poe’s and Baudelaire’s poems can successfully stimulate readers’ sentiments and excite their emotions and win lots of responses.
Keywords: Poe, Baudelaire, decadence, woman, city experience, Jung’s archetypal effect, symbol
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