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Wilde creates a vision of his post-prison future, this vision entails at least as much irony as romance , because much of the time Wilde seems to be writing against himself

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He constructs self-representations that seem to hide as much as they reveal; the disjunctions arise from irresolvable tensions lurking in Wilde's rhetorical goals as he sought both to hide and reveal his own agency within the events of his life

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Wilde was trying to demonstrate not so much that he was above the world , but that he had been and still could be an agent in a world that required duplicity and disguise for survival (disguise himself as in who he is because he is gay)

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When he went to jail in 1895, Wilde resisted his ruin; he did not accept that his work as a writer was finished, though the public thought so.

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In De Profundis Wilde hoped to rebuild his earlier stature as an artist and to articulate the terms on which he might be judged by posterity.

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De Profundis reproduces that fundamental conflict between power and victimization underlying the social identity Wilde had come to inhabit as an active homosexual

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In the text he casts himself alternatively as a tragic protagonist undone by hubris and a victim overwhelmed by repressive social forces

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Wilde uses a variety of rhetorical strategies to disguise the erotic implications of his relationship with Douglas and to displace what was culturally inscribed as a moral issue to the realm of aesthetic fulfillment .

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De Profundis was written in prison over three months in 1897; Oscar rationalizes his suffering within the letter of his mom's death etc. (De Profundis should be at the end of essay)

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Ravenna is a long poem that details Wilde's experience in the Italian city

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Wilde discusses how quiet the city is and it is assumed he's making a comparison to his hometown in Dublin, Ireland. Ravenna is no longer the city the city that Dante or Julius Caesar knew, instead it is a forgotten city that is eerie in its silence

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https://study.com/academy/lesson/oscar-wildes-poems-analysis-quotes.html

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Ravenna was Wilde's first long poem to be published; the poem deals with many of the themes that he developed for the 1881 collection

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Ravenna develops through contrast: northern and southern European cultures, innocence and experience, past and present, classical and Christian. As a city, Ravenna evokes all these contrasts to the youthful Wilde

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The opening imagery is of spring, with a tendency to lushness and typical of Keats. The boyish awe that Wilde felt in Ravenna is tempered by recollection for the poem he is recalling his visit a year later.

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It is through recollection He understands the greatness of the city, for in his northern world he has no such symbol of the rich complexity of time. What he learns from the English landscape is the passage of seasons that will mark his aging.

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Most of the poem is a poetic recounting of Ravenna's history. Wilde discusses the classical past of the city with reference to Caesar.

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When he refers to Lord Byron's stay in the city, by association with Byron's last days in Greece, he imagines the region peopled with mythological figures; but the evening convent bell returns him to a somber Christian world.

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https://www.enotes.com/topics/oscar-wilde/critical-essays/analysis-2

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Wilde shows that Ravenna has changed- "marked with wounds of fame" - begins the long poem revealing what will soon be its content

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"boyish passion" - Wilde felt like Ravenna gave him a sense of childhood and was a place free of worries along with the uneasiness and shame he must pretend to feel through the judgement of the time that he was now living in standing with "Ravenna's walls at last!"

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Ravenna is seen as a place where men should forget their sorrows, "watching the tide of seasons as they flow."

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Once Wilde looks back on Ravenna, he finds it to only be a place where man forgets what is seen right by a community that is not there at the present time.

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Ancient historians are buried in Ravenna and show how the city both lacks change in time and reveals a change in time as Wilde could not come to Ravenna with the same principles as these Lords/Kings

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It is only by intensifying his own personality that the critic can interpret the personality and work of others, and the more strongly this personality enters into interpretation, the more real the interpretation becomes , the more convincing and true

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The Ballad of Reading Gaol - the penal system is criticized from the perspective of a murderer in prison who was sentenced to death penalty

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The murderer, his psychological state in prison, the challenging conditions of the prison, and the wardens' treatment to prisoners are impressively depicted in the ballad.

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Wilde creates a general assessment of and a protest against the cruel and inhumane system (compares to his own experience?)

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the initial section introduces a man who had killed the 'woman whom he had loved,' but it also establishes the recurring argument that each man kills the thing he loves. (Oscar with his relationship?)

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the second section of the ballad summarizes the inmate's six weeks on death row, during which he never seems to show signs of despair.

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He appears to be enjoying his remaining time and is often noted as looking 'wistfully at the day.' The narrator draws contrasts between everyday items and activities and their appearance to hanging, effectively condemning the practice as a truly ironic punishment.

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third section- depicts the inmate as he remains nonchalant in the days leading to his death. He is seen to be sleeping soundly the night before his execution, while all other prisoners are seem tormented by specters who taunt them concerning their fates.

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fourth section- dawn is breaking; the other prisoners are taken out after the deed has been done, and they observe the fresh grave and the fire that will be used to burn their body.

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The hanged man is stripped and mocked by the prison staff before cremation, but the narrator claims he rests in peace despite any proper respect or rites.

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this and other aspects characterizing the jailors' treatment of prisoners are deemed to be worse than any of the crimes they themselves have committed. In the end, the dead inmate has been sanctified by his true contrition and rests eternally in Reading Gaol as the final section claims.

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the last stanza of the ballad then reiterates the statement one final time that all have sinned against humanity.

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https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-ballad-of-reading-gaol-by-oscar-wilde-summary-analysis.html

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a poetic description of Oscar Wilde's experiences in prison, specifically witnessing the sentence and execution of a fellow inmate at Reading Gaol.

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first part of the poem consists of several verses describing the prisoner; his appearance, emotions, and situation.

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fifth part- a reflection of the darkness, discomfort, and other horrors of prison life. In comparison to previous parts of the poem, the fifth part contains several references to God and Christ, used to emphasize the religious implications of the suffering the prisoners are forced to endure as punishment for their crimes.

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It is abundantly clear that that the crime was one of passion and not committed in cold blood. In his anguish over the execution of his inmate, he says that while all men kill what they love, "yet each man does not die."

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This narration describes Wilde's thoughts within prison and possibly of his own death as he does not die soon after from his own suicide. Writing that not each man does die, may be an implication for himself wanting to die.

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Wilde may compare himself to the inmate and see similarities within himself. Wilde knows he has done wrong in his action of sodimy and knows he must die for what he has done.

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http://www.gradesaver.com/the-ballad-of-reading-gaol/study-guide/analysis