In Charles Baudelaire’s poem, “Correspondences,” we can see that nature has an important and symbolic meaning in life. However, people cannot seem to realize its true beauty even when they are surrounded by it, “all things watch him with familiar eyes” (line 4). In the first line, Baudelaire says that nature is a temple. Generally, people go to temples to get away from reality and to have a better understanding of themselves. Like a temple, Baudelaire wants people to get away from their modern lives to see the importance of nature and how it will “excite the ecstasies of sense, the soul’s delight” (line 15). Baudelaire also compares nature to things people are more used to, “perfumes there are as sweet as the oboe’s sound” (line 9) and “green as the prairies, fresh as a child’s caress” (line 10). These things stops us from seeing nature from what it really is.