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The Ballad of Reading Gaol ist ein Gedicht von Oscar Wilde. Es erschien 1898 und ist Wildes letztes zu seinen Lebzeiten veröffentlichtes Werk. Wilde verarbeitete darin seine Zeit im Gefängnis von Reading, wo er zwei Jahre verbracht hatte, nachdem er 1895 wegen seiner Homosexualität zu harter Zwangsarbeit verurteilt worden war.
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?
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,
In A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, while discussing the experimental aversion therapy administered to the narrator Alex, Dr. Branom says, "Each man kills the thing he loves, as the poet-prisoner said".
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.
Oscar Wilde's 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' probes the themes of justice, punishment, retribution, and societal hypocrisy, providing historical insights into the dehumanizing penal system of 19th-century Victorian England. Poem Analyzed by Emma Baldwin.
5. Okt. 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.
