Oct 1 blog

Baudelaire defines "man of the world" as a man who knows his surroundings. Who doesn't just get by, but appreciates everything along the way. He defines an artist as one incorporates these observations in the world in his work. One who doesn't try to retrieve ideas by cooping himself away, but one who goes out and puts the world in his work, rather than his work in the world. O'Hara fits this definition. He rights with the world and surroundings in mind. You know that he walked around and took the city in before he sat down to write. He is a " man of the world" and an "artist" by Baudelaire's definition, and he would consider O'Hara a good man in the sense of his work.