Not merely the work of a fruitful imagination, the poem is informed by Wilde’s own stretch at the facility during a two-year incarceration with hard labour – for “gross indecency". READ MORE: The A-Z of Reading: One-legged generals, floods and Zinzans This 109-verse work tells the sorry tale of a prison inmate, including his observations of a fellow prisoner condemned to die and executed by hanging at the institution.
He is also remembered for his poems, the last and best known of which is The Ballad of Reading Gaol. GradeSaver, 8 September 2016 Web.Oscar Wilde is best known for his novels and plays including A Picture of Dorian Gray, and The Importance of Being Earnest. Next Section Analysis Previous Section Themes How To Cite in MLA Format Lena, Braga. Will review the submission and either publish your submission or provide feedback. You can help us out by revising, improving and updatingĪfter you claim a section you’ll have 24 hours to send in a draft. For them, time seems to drag on and stretches to infinity which only amplifies the hardship they have to face. They remained stuck in an endless night where darkness became the only reality they knew and where light and hope didn’t exist. The prison walls influences those who didn’t believe in God to start thinking about him and to start to pray to him.įor those inside the prison, the morning brought no comfort. Inside the prison, a place where there was no hope and where those inside where reminded constantly of the possibility of being hanged, the idea of God and forgiveness becomes the only thing keeping those inside from becoming hopeless. The idea that men find peace in religion and prayer becomes a motif from the beginning of the poem. The poison inside their body slowly kills them and their guilty conscious produces more pain than any other punishment could. The prisoners are all tormented by the sin they have done, a sin compared with a poisonous sword. The narrator describes the feeling he and other inmates experience while being in prison. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own.Īnd as molten lead were the tears we shed These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.
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