Beauty In Madame Crommelynck's The Young Poet

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Beauty is something everyone has, but adding beauty to something already beautiful spoils the bunch; that is a message Madame Crommelynck wants us to know. Madame Crommelynck is the unexpected mentor for Jason and someone who has embraced the literary world, but instead of Jason Madame Crommelynck will be swapping students with Rilke; who is the late mentor of The Young Poet. The Young Poet is a beginner to the literary world, and since he’s just a beginner he currently has a lot of problems with his works of arts such being the lack of being able to put his life’s beauty into works of art. The Young Poet also struggles with going deep into himself to find the meaning of why he wants to write. Surely, with enough time Madame Crommelynck …show more content…
The Young Poet lacks adding life into his works of art, the Young Poet cannot simply relate his works of art to his true reality, and the second Madame Crommelynck notices this major flaw, she’ll for sure address it in an instant. Madame Crommelynck would most likely follow back with an estimate similar to the one she gives to Jason on Page 154, “About superficialities, Jason, yes, is easy. About pain, no, is not.” Madame Crommelynck knows that anyone can write about fake works of art, but once the poet gets into his personal life and talks about one's real problem, that’s when they’ve created an excellent piece of art. Another problem The Young Poet has are that his poems reek with the stench of beauty. Madame Crommelynck isn’t against beauty, but she knows there’s a limit to how much someone should use; like when she stated “Beautiful words ruin your poetry. A touch of beauty enhances a dish, but you throw a hill of it into the pot! No, the palate becomes nauseous. You believe a poem must be beautiful, or it can have no excellence. I am right?” She knows that when he made that love poem, he’s stacking too much beauty, and therefore ruining the elegance of the poems by adding so much “spice.” Finally, the last problem Madame Crommelynck would have a problem with is

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