?With the start of the modernization process and the capitalist era, people become alienated and question their existence. Many things which we can describe as "old school" changed with the advance of industrialization and its derivations: the modernization and capitalism. As they advance, the reactions and the descriptions for this new type of life have been emerging. In order to understand the reactions and descriptions, the best way is looking through literature. Ability to react to the events on a specific time best could be achieved through literature, specifically poems. At this point, Charles Baudelaire and his poems gains importance. Briefly, as one of the most important representative of the modernist school in poetry, Baudelaire, in his poems and other writings, shows us the conditions in the early period of the modernization process.
             In his poems, he criticizes the impact of modernization on people who are struggling and shows us the reality of the progressive modernization. Specifically, in his work "Paris Spleen", Baudelaire shows us the conditions in Paris, a city which was overwhelmed by the progressive modernization and capitalism. In fact, he shows us the reality of that time which was close to today's reality. In this paper, one of his works from the Paris Spleen, "The Stranger" will be debated regarding the related concepts.
             Looking through "The Stranger" it can be said that Baudelaire describes the image of people in the industrialized Paris. Merging with the industrialization, the progressive modernization makes people alienated from their own essence. Hard conditions of the system puts people into a melt pot so that they become alienated from themselves and public. In the poem, we can see the alienation and skepticism beginning from the first line. Before start, a brief information about the concept of the poem should be given in order to understand the text correctly. The poem is a quote of the conversat...