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		r0naa on March 30, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Who are your favorite poets? I don't find it strange to claim that this is Baudelaire's work. Of course the style and the rhymes makes it very different compared to the original version. I also think that translation has altered the poem's beauty but the message is still here, the story is the same and it leaves me with the same humbled feelings.

gbog on March 31, 2015 [–]

Story? There's no story in poetry!

But yes, this is still Baudelaire's poem, I would have recognized it (I know well the French version).

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