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A literary criticism of the poem "Divagations" by 19th century French poet Stéphane Mallarmé is presented. The article discusses the poetics of Mallarmé's prose poems, the influence of 19th century French critic Charles Baudelaire on Mallarmé's poetry, and the literary aesthetics of Mallarmé's understanding of beauty, the feminine ideal, and the fantastic. Other subjects under discussion include Mallarmé's portrayal of women, the pessimism in his writing, and the notion of solitude.