Charles Baudelaire's "The Albatross" is a French poem. It was first published in 1861 as one of the poems in Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil). "The Albatross" appeared under its original French title,"L'Albatros," in a section entitled "Spleen et Idéal" ("Spleen and the Ideal"). Les Fleurs du Mal was one of the most influential works of the nineteenth century. Among its themes are beauty and ugliness in life, boredom, death, despair, the role of the poet, and cultural decadence. The book often uses symbols to represent ideals and feelings.

Firstly, let’s summarize the poem. To amuse themselves, sailors often capture albatrosses, the large sea birds that lazily follow a ship gliding over the bitter ocean depths. After the crewmen take control of them on the deck, the humiliated kings of the azure skies drop their great white wings, like the oars of a boat, as they move about clumsily.
How awkward and feckless this winged voyager seems! Only a moment before, he was majestic and beautiful as he soared. Now he is ugly. One man pokes a pipe at his beak to bedevil him. Another mimics his ungainly walk.
The poet is like this prince of the highest skies. He too soars through storm clouds and laughs at the archer drawing his bowstring. But on earth, his is great wings prevent him from walking.
Then, we are going to discuss the themes in the poem. Are treated in this poem the beauty in the ugliness of life as well as cruelty. About the beauty in ugliness of life, the albatross is amazingly beautiful. But when its touches down on earth, it walks awkwardly, like a drunk man that everybody makes fun of. The poet writes about the beauty of this albatross. About the theme of cruelty, there are those who ignore the goodness of a man or a woman and focus on the bad in order to make themselves feel better and vent their cruelty through ridicule and mockery. Some