![]() That would certainly seem to have been true of his relationship with "Bosie", Lord Alfred Douglas, seemingly a spoiled brat further spoiled by Wilde's adulation. What does Wilde mean? Perhaps he is saying that love itself corrupts or alters its object. It is a revelation, and its structure is part of that revelation.Įveryone can quote the refrain: "For each man kills the thing he loves." Poetically, it's unquestionably powerful, and, intellectually, it's powerfully questionable. ![]() ![]() The Ballad is an indictment of the death penalty and the whole penal system, but it is much more than a protest poem. Around this narrative core, whose genre might be described as gothic realism, Wilde builds a meditation on the paradoxes of morality. The poem is dedicated to the memory of the "sometime" Royal Horse Guards trooper, Charles Thomas Wooldridge, and the central incident is Wooldridge's execution for the murder of his wife. ![]()
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