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Three little weeks in which to heal. His soul of his soul's strife, And cleanse from every blot of blood. The hand that held the knife. And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal: And the crimson stain that was of Cain.
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?
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.'" The Ballad of Reading Gaol is quoted at the end of chapter 16 of Upton Sinclair 's The Jungle , attributing it to "a poet, to whom the world had dealt its justice".
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.”. ― 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:
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 ...
The latter is one of the most important in the poem. It can be seen in Wilde’s broad repetition of lines like “For each man kills the thing he loves.” A number of the stanzas in this poem are identical or close to identical due to this literary device. It helps the poem maintain its sing-song-like feeling.
