Abstract:

This article intends to show that the misunderstanding among the reading public is not only a historical-cultural phenomenon capable of explaining the poor public reception of Baudelaire's first poems. Being the subject of several of the poet's writings, misunderstanding is incorporated into his poetry as an enunciative problem. After brief comments on the concept of “dramatic poet”, coined by Barbey d'Aurevilly, I comment on some prose poems in which the misunderstanding is dramatized.

Keywords:
Baudelaire; reception; misunderstanding, dramatic poet