![]() ![]() 5] Wilde too was separated from his wife and sons. Wilde juxtaposes the executed man and himself with the line "Yet each man kills the thing he loves". 4] No attempt is made to assess the justice of the laws which convicted them, but rather the poem highlights the brutalisation of the punishment that all convicts share. The poem narrates the execution of Wooldridge it moves from an objective story-telling to symbolic identification with the prisoners as a whole. 2] 3]Wilde wrote the poem in mid-1897 while staying with Robert Ross in Berneval-le-Grand. He was convicted of cutting the throat of his wife, Laura Ellen, 1] earlier that year at Clewer, near Windsor. ![]() Charles Thomas Wooldridge had been a trooper in the Royal Horse Guards. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading after being convicted of homosexual offences in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison.During his imprisonment, on Tuesday, 7 July 1896, a hanging took place. The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile in Berneval-le-Grand, after his release from Reading Gaol on. ![]()
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