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“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 Gold: The kindest use a knife, because The dead so soon ...
For each man kills the thing he loves, Yet each man does not die. He does not die a death of shame On a day of dark disgrace, Nor have a noose about his neck, Nor a cloth upon his face, Nor drop feet foremost through the floor Into an empty space. He doe ...
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 line "Each man kills the thing he loves" appears in two films concerned with ideas of criminality: Mad Love and Querelle. Robert Mitchum misquotes the poem to Janet Leigh in the 1949 film Holiday Affair – "There's a poem that runs roughly, 'Each man kicks the thing he loves.'"
Gavin Friday veröffentlichte 1989 das Lied Each Man Kills The Thing He Loves auf dem gleichnamigen Album. Der Text besteht aus Passagen aus Wildes Gedicht. Arthur Wills verwendete Teile des Textes in seinem Chorwerk The Sacrifice of God.
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. There are men who “do the deed,” (killing the thing they love), with tears ...
The brave man with a sword! The coward kills the thing he loves with a kiss (recalling Judas, the betrayer of Jesus, who identified Jesus to the Roman authorities by kissing him), much as Wilde’s own relationship with Bosie had been the kiss of death.
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