La symbolique des couleurs dans la poesie de Charles Baudelaire

The aim of this essay is to study the meaning of the colours in Baudelaire's verses and to investigate their symbolic distinction. The context analysis of two opposite groups – dark colours and light colours – proves that Baudelaire's poetry is multilayered and by no means depressive. On the contrary, having brought the readers through different vicissitudes of real life with its unadulterated truth, it finally gives them a hope