![]() ![]() It was not commonly known, until the 7th printing in June 1899, that C.3.3. ![]() This ensured that Wilde's name – by then notorious – did not appear on the poem's front cover. The finished poem was published by Leonard Smithers in 1898 under the name C.3.3., which stood for cell block C, landing 3, cell 3. This had a profound effect on Wilde, inspiring the line "Yet each man kills the thing he loves." He was convicted of cutting the throat of his wife, Laura Ellen, earlier that year at Clewer, near Windsor. A ballad is a poem or song that narrates a story. Wilde writes this poem as a ballad and narrates his experience at Reading Gaol prison. 1866 – 7 July 1896) had been a trooper in the Royal Horse Guards. Oscar Wilde strays from the traditional rhyme scheme of ABCB and includes two additional lines in each stanza which add a DB to the rhyme scheme. ![]() Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading, after being convicted of homosexual offences in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison.ĭuring his imprisonment, on Saturday 7 July 1896, a hanging took place. The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile either in Berneval or in Dieppe, France, after his release from Reading Gaol on or about. ![]()
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