According to Oxford Living Dictionaries, the term “carcass” in their initial definition is, “the dead body of an animal”. A “carcass” is the object of interest to Charles Baudelaire in his poem “A Carcass”. Baudelaire writes this poem during the Romantic period. The Romantic period valued feelings, nature, and self-subjected truth. You could think of the Romantic period as everything that the Enlightment period was not. By using elements of the Romantic period, Baudelaire delivers “A Carcass” in a way, that you wouldn’t rationally think is meaningful. In Baudelaire’s poem, he calls to mind a memory with another individual about an item that they encountered one day in June. This item happened to be a carcass, laying on the side of the path
