LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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We Are Seven (Wordsworth)
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Ballad of Reading Goal (Oscar Wilde)
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Prisoner of Chillon (Byron)
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None of these
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile in Berneval-le-Grand, after his release from Reading Gaol (/rɛ. dɪŋ. dʒeɪl/) 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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Themes. In ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol, ’ Wilde engages with themes of loss, imprisonment, and emotional turbulence. The poet works from his own experiences in Reading Gaol, and those of men he met or knew about, to craft this poem about the sorrows of life, love, and solitude.
Detailed explanation-3: -"The Ballad of Reading Gaol” tells the story of a man in prison awaiting his death. The refrain repeats “each man kills the thing he loves, ” reminding the reader that all humans share in some perverse act against humanity, but only a few are sentenced to death.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898) sees Wilde reflecting on the nature of sin, crime, love, and hatred in a long poem that has given us a number of famous lines, ‘Each man kills the thing he loves’ being the most memorable.