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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.”. ― Oscar Wilde, Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde including the Ballad of Reading Gaol. tags: 1897 , ballad-of-reading-gaol. Read more quotes from Oscar Wilde. Share this quote: Like Quote.
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, And his step seemed light and gay;
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, And some when they are old; Some strangle with the hands of Lust, Some with the hands of Gold: The kindest use a knife ...
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?
Wilde juxtaposes the executed man and himself with the line "Yet each man kills the thing he loves". Wilde too was separated from his wife and sons. He adopted the proletarian ballad form, and suggested it be published in Reynold's Magazine , "because it circulates widely among the criminal classes – to which I now belong – for ...
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.
2017. Current Online Version: 2017. eISBN: 9780191843730. Oscar Wilde 1854–1900. Irish dramatist and poet. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. De Profundis (1905) I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it.
