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The Ballad of Reading Gaol. By Oscar Wilde. I. He did not wear his scarlet coat, For blood and wine are red, And blood and wine were on his hands. When they found him with the dead, The poor dead woman whom he loved, And murdered in her bed. He walked amongst the Trial Men. In a suit of shabby gray; A cricket cap was on his head,
- Oscar Wilde
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- Oscar Wilde
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!
Some love too little, some too long, Some sell, and others buy; Some do the deed with many tears, And some without a sigh: For each man kills the thing he loves, Yet each man does not die.
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), Wilde’s best-known poem by some way, is about sin, crime, love, and hatred. A book-length poem, it has given us a number of famous lines, with ‘each man kills the thing he loves’ being the most memorable. But what is the meaning of this line?
For each man kills the thing he loves, Yet each man does not die. There are men in the world who find folly in other ways. Some are liable to “love too little, some too long.” There are the men that “sell” out their love, and others who can only “buy” it.
5 de oct. de 2020 · The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898) sees Wilde reflecting on the nature of sin, crime, love, and hatred in a long poem that has given us a number of famous lines, ‘Each man kills the thing he loves’ being the most memorable.
He looked upon the garish day With such a wistful eye; The man had killed the thing he loved And so he had to die. 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! Some kill their love when they are young,
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