Oscar Wilde
Wilde's career ended in catastrophe because of his homosexuality. Although society was overlooking it his father did not. Wilde sued his father and as a result, his personal life was exposed in court. Because in Britian it was a crime to be homosexual, he was prosecuted and had to serve two years doing hard labor.After this Wilde was a disgrace and out of money. He was shunned by all but a few, forbidden to see his sons and their last names were changed so as not to cause them any more pain or humiliation.
Symphony in Yellow
An omnibus across the bridge
Crawls like a yellow butterfly,
And, here and there, a passer-by
Shows like a little restless midge
Here is is describing the beauty of the bus and watching the people go by. During this time yellow was associated with sunflowers and the color of paper back French novels, and they were associated with the Aesthetic movement. I really did not care for Wilde's writing, to me it really did not speak. I did not understand it all that well. As it said in his mini-biography he liked to talk. I hope that he communicated better verbally than he did in his writings.
Wilde's career ended in catastrophe because of his homosexuality. Although society was overlooking it his father did not. Wilde sued his father and as a result, his personal life was exposed in court. Because in Britian it was a crime to be homosexual, he was prosecuted and had to serve two years doing hard labor.After this Wilde was a disgrace and out of money. He was shunned by all but a few, forbidden to see his sons and their last names were changed so as not to cause them any more pain or humiliation.
Symphony in Yellow
An omnibus across the bridge
Crawls like a yellow butterfly,
And, here and there, a passer-by
Shows like a little restless midge
Here is is describing the beauty of the bus and watching the people go by. During this time yellow was associated with sunflowers and the color of paper back French novels, and they were associated with the Aesthetic movement. I really did not care for Wilde's writing, to me it really did not speak. I did not understand it all that well. As it said in his mini-biography he liked to talk. I hope that he communicated better verbally than he did in his writings.
posted by frostygurl1 at 9:07 PM
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I tend to think that Wilde's father went a bit too far on the deep end. It's funny because when you think about it, here we are studying how his father disowned him and what not, but if he'd just accepted his son for who he was, then there woudn't have been as much invasion on the familial history. Haha...I find that slightly ironic!
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