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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?
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".
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,
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.
“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 ...
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.
Text analysis. We can divide the text into stanzas of 6 lines. (The whole poem consists of 109 stanzas). The length of the lines is quite regular: the poem presents eight-syllables lines alternate with six-syllables ones. The rhyme scheme is quite regular as well: ABC BDB.
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