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Ballad of Reading Gaol
Oscar Wilde
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Wilde’s meditation on capital punishment, the Ballad of Reading Gaol comes after he was convicted and imprisoned under charges of gross indecency. The charges stemmed from his affair with Lord Alfred Douglas, the son of the Marquis of Queensberry. It relates the story of an execution of a man who murdered his wife which Wilde witnessed during his internment.
Wilde’s meditation on capital punishment, the Ballad of Reading Gaol comes after he was convicted and imprisoned under charges of gross indecency. The charges stemmed from his affair with Lord Alfred Douglas, the son of the Marquis of Queensberry. It relates the story of an execution of a man who murdered his wife which Wilde witnessed during his internment.
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در هیچ قتلگاه هنگام روز
کسی را به دار نمی آویزند:
زیرا یا قلب کشیش خیلی ضعیف است
یا صورت او خیلی رنگ پریده می باشد
و یا چیزی در چشمان او نوشته شده است
که هنگام روز هیچ کس نمی تواند به آن بنگرد.
من هرگز مردان غمگینی را ندیده بودم
که با چنان چشمان خیره
به آن خیمه آبی رنگ که
زندانیان آسمانش می خوانند
و به هر قط
Oscar Wilde escribió "La Balada de la cárcel de Reading" precisamente cuando todavía estaba en prisión, luego de ser sentenciado a dos años de trabajos forzados por sodomía en 1895 y otros cargos que asumió a partir de hacer pública su condición de homosexual, perdiendo un juicio contra el padre de
A Killer named Jealousy
A man who murdered his wife in an act of uncontrollable jealousy was sentenced to death by hanging, and yet ... “all men kill the thing they love”
Is that true?
Do we kill the ones we love?
I don’t see it as a rule, but a possibility:
How manny relationships have been broken by je
"The Ballad of Reading Gaol" is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile, after his release from Reading Gaol 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.
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