Charles Baudelaire is able to capture the grotesque and beautiful nature of death in his poem “A Carcass.” He recalls discovering a carcass with his lover while walking along a path and begins a descriptive recollection of what he saw: “The flies buzzed and droned on these bowels of filth where an army of maggots arose, which flowed like a liquid and thickening stream on the animate rags of her clothes (17-20).” Although the imagery he provides is mostly discomforting, throughout the poem, he seems to include brief glimpses of beauty to suggest that death can be beautiful. He then explores the ugly and the beautiful when mentioning that even the beautiful decay and “molder with the bones of the dead (44).” It seems that Baudelaire is a realist and accepts that death is inevitable.