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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?
@Sglass,
It is the central theme of the movie "The Werewolf of London"
@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,
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")
@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.
@farmerman,
Are you talking about the 1935 version?
@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
Not one mention of a helicopter