12) I agree with Baudelaire's assessment of the modern human condition where the only reason we don't kill is because we are cowards and won't go out and commit slaughters. In the last stanza of the poem, Baudelaire points out, that it is not only him and the people he speaks of in the poem but also us …show more content…
than the heart of a mortal)." All he sees now is the disarray of the city's remaking, from platform to broken columns. Baudelaire at that point juxtaposes the unadulterated however overturned picture of a white swan with the dull, broken picture of the city. The swan asks the sky for rain yet gets no answer. The speaker constrains himself to grasp the new city yet can't overlook the hopeless figure of the swan and also the destiny of Andromache, who was seized not long after her significant other's