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The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile in Berneval-le-Grand and Naples, after his release from Reading Gaol (/ r ɛ. d ɪ ŋ. dʒ eɪ l /) on 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading after being convicted of gross indecency with other men in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison.
The model for the country house poem is Ben Jonson's 'To Penshurst', one of the first in this genre. The speaker contrasts Penshurst, a large and important late medieval house which was extended in a similar style under Elizabeth I, with more recent prodigy houses, which he calls "proud, ambitious heaps". [1]
The poem is a distorted view of a single reality, and the variation in meter can be seen to reflect the manic-depressive emotional tone of the speaker. While the poem was Tennyson's own favourite (he was known very willingly to have recited the poem in its entirety on social occasions), it was met with much criticism in contemporary circles.
The act of killing by removing a person's head, usually with an axe or other bladed instrument A much-favoured method of execution used around the world. Notable examples include the French Revolution via guillotine, and the Tudor times using an axe. Deleted Murdered Literary Defenestration: The act of killing by throwing a person out of a window
An example of regeneration is the lines “grow/ A hundredfold” and “Mother with Infant.” Several symbolic references to the Reformation era Protestant view of the Papacy appear in this poem. In stating "O'er all th' Italian fields where still doth sway/ The triple tyrant", a reference is made to the triple-crown Papal Tiara , which was a ...
The speaker, overlooking a pasture where sheep graze, recalls that once a great ancient city, his country's capital, stood there. After spending four stanzas describing the beauty and grandeur of the ancient city, the speaker says that "a girl with eager eyes and yellow hair/Waits me there", and that "she looks now, breathless, dumb/Till I come."
The TTPD booklet poem ends with the “all’s fair in love and poetry” stanza that Swift previously released when she shared the TTPD cover earlier this year. The Tortured Poets Department is ...
First edition (publ. Knopf) The Cinnamon Peeler is a lyric poem by Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje.The poem is about love, but also about writing. The speaker of the poem travels through vastly different temporalities, wishing for different outcomes in a subjunctive past, and settling on the hope given to him as he is in dialogue with his memory.