A DRAMATIC READING OF BAUDELAIRE (IX) Symphonic Poem (II) The Empathy Method

Prof. Tuğrul İnal, deals with women’s problems in reality and fiction through the Empathy Method, in destructing Baudelaire’s language in Flowers of Evil. The details of the Empathy Method were published in the 18th edition of “Frankofoni”- pp 3-26. Inal stated that the application of this method to the works of the Turkish poet Orhan Veli and Baudelaire’s texts allows the essayist an artistic and aesthetic freedom, enlarges the limits of creativity, and to a certain extent even allows for the text to be reconstructed. This method also draws attention to the author, and the essayist is faced the vital and aesthetic problematic which Baudelaire dealt with throughout his lifetime. The Empathy Method allows the readers to experience Baudelaire over and over again in an intertextual context and a narrative style befitting the essay. Thus, the essayist becomes an actor, an independent implementer affecting the whole and even the producer. Prof. Inal continues with the use of this method in analysis – this time concentrating on what he calls ‘symphonic poetry’. This paper, reminiscent of the themed partitions of symphonic poetry, is composed of four parts. In the first part which is fiery and impassioned there are Dreams and Passions, the second part initially avid and expeditious then impassive and leisurely is Adulation for a Lover, the third part which starts out in an impetuous manner but then moves to a leisurely pace is called Tranquility, Tension and Anguish, the short final section is entitled Death and the Devil. Death, nihilism and pessimism are the main features of symphonic poetry. Benevolence, grace and euphoria between heaven and hell ends with the tragic defeat of the Devi