![]() ![]() What signs does this poem give of the influence of other late-century poetry or of “decadent” consciousness in general? How can we tell that it was written in the 1890s rather than, say, the 1850s? (strong identification with outcast, indictment of religious and political institutions, self-conscious “aesthetic” use of earlier forms)ĥ. How is sound used throughout the poem? What is the significance of the fact that some communications can be made solely in whispers?Ħ. What are some qualities of the poem's narrator/observer/use of multiple observers? How are these designed to amplify or render more resonant the narrator's observations and reflections? (concentric rings of observers around a silent center-society, the officials, readers, the narrator, his fellow prisoners ("we"), and the condemned man)ĥ. What is the poem’s poetic form? What associations do you have with the tradition to which it belongs? How, for example, does the poem differ from Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”?Ĥ. ![]() What symbolic and dramatic effect is gained by making the subject of the poem a condemned man hanged during the poem?ģ. What use does Wilde make of his experiences as a prisoner in Reading Gaol? Why do you think he doesn’t refer more specifically to his own case?Ģ. ![]()
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