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OSCAR WHILE AT READING GAOL

 
 
Sglass
 
Reply Sun 28 Mar, 2010 07:41 pm
I think Oscar Wilde was an incredible poet. This is a verse from the Ballad of Reading Gaol.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!

How would you interpret this verse?
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farmerman
 
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Reply Mon 29 Mar, 2010 06:06 am
@Sglass,
It is the central theme of the movie "The Werewolf of London"
Sglass
 
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Reply Mon 29 Mar, 2010 11:26 am
@farmerman,
It is?
farmerman
 
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Reply Mon 29 Mar, 2010 11:28 am
@Sglass,
yep, the lines were that the werewolf guy was trying to keep himself from killing his sweetheart because"YOU ALWAYS HURT THE ONE YOU LOVE"
farmerman
 
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Reply Mon 29 Mar, 2010 11:52 am
@farmerman,
Im not sure whether the werewolf was in the city of Reading when he first got bit. The poem is specific on its location (the "Gaol" in Reading Town")
Merry Andrew
 
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Reply Mon 29 Mar, 2010 01:03 pm
@farmerman,
We can't afford to forget why Wilde was at Reading Gaol, doing time. He felt he had been betrayed by his gay lover who had testified against him in the libel suit that Wilde had brought against the man who had accused him of being gay. That was a punishable offence back in those days.
Sglass
 
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Reply Mon 29 Mar, 2010 01:42 pm
@farmerman,
Are you talking about the 1935 version?
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farmerman
 
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Reply Mon 29 Mar, 2010 02:55 pm
@Merry Andrew,
Youre giving me way too much more information here MA. I barely recall the poem , let alone its baggage. I was merely trying to give your lovely wife some assistance from memory of the phrase that one always kills the thing one loves the most. When I went back to read the poem, I found it not my cuppa.

http://emotionalliteracyeducation.com/classic_books_online/rgaol10.htm


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