![]() ![]() While in prison in Wilde’s poem, Wooldridge meets his death bravely while the other men cower from the idea alone. After the murder, he begged the officers to arrest him and mourned his action until his death. During an argument, they tumbled onto the street, and he slit her throat with a knife. The poem begins with a discussion of Charles Thomas Wooldridge who was condemned to die in 1896 for murdering his wife in a jealous rage. The poem is 109 stanzas separated into six sections. It tells of Wilde’s experiences in prison and his observations of another prisoner condemned to die. ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’ is Oscar Wilde’s most successful poem and was his last great work written before his death in 1900. In their parting, she takes consolation in the fact that she still has her “beauty” and he, his “Art”. She is not upset about this, and does not believe he should be either as eternity was really fantasy as mystical as the “seas”. Unfortunately, it now seems that eternity has ended and that “love’s web is spun”. The speaker begins by reminding the listener, her partner, that this garden is where she once vowed to stay with him for “eternity”. A reader hears two sides of the same story. The speakers in these two works are related, the one is speaking about the other. The poem ‘Her Voice’ is the companion piece to the shorter poem, ‘ My Voice’. ![]() This is the same connection that fueled generations of protests and revolutions against cruel and murderous leaders. But, the speaker does feel something of a connection to it. It is clear from the start that the speaker is not completely convinced by Liberty and those it produces. The poem uses a technique known as an apostrophe to address Liberty and tell it what the speaker thinks about its nature and its children. These include liberty, justice, and the principles of human existence. It was the first poem in the volume and explores several themes to which Wilde returned later. This poem got published in 1881 in Wilde’s poetry collection, Poems and it is another best poem of Wilde. Wilde concludes the poem by quoting the inscription on the tombstone and saying that he will do whatever it takes to keep that land green, even if he has to water it with his own tears. He compares Keats to Saint Sebastian, an early Christian who was martyred for his faith. Wilde continues to say that while viewing the spot at which Keats is buried, there are no huge trees to block out the sun, only violets that wrap around “his bones”. His death was significant to the speaker, he holds a saint-like stature in his mind. The poet is with God, and beyond the problems and discomforts of the world. He does so by speaking about the world that John Keats now gets to live in. This particular piece, one of Wilde’s best poems, begins with the speaker hoping to cheer up his own, and the reader’s mood. Oscar Wilde was a lover of John Keats’ poetry and referred to him in several of his poems, including another on this list. 6 On the Sale By Auction of Keats’ Love Letters.
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