In short, every man there – prison staff included – is guilty of some great fault against humanity. Use for remote learning, as a class workbook, or as a revision guide. Each man in that prison has done something worse than the man condemned to die, not only the convicts but also, their jailors who break the prisoners, minds, bodies, and spirits. The Ballad of Reading Gaol A Level Lit B Study Guide Subject: English Age range: 16+ Resource type: Unit of work 0 reviews File previews docx, 21.37 MB Home Study Guide for Oscar Wilde’s The Ballad of Rading Gaol. Here he deals with the death of that inmate, but the punishment for this crime seems cruelly ironic to the narrator, as emphasized with the line ‘each man kills the thing he loves,’ which acts as a refrain and underlines that each person has in some way irreparably damaged a loved one. This meditation on the paradoxes of morality is an accusation of the death penalty and the whole penal systemĪs its title states, Wilde’s work is a ballad poem, or a verse work concerning typically tragic themes of love, war, adventure, and death. The narration moves from an objective story-telling to symbolic identification with the prisoners as a whole. The poem is dedicated to the memory a Royal Horse Guards trooper, executed for the murder of his wife. the third cell on the third floor of C ward It was first published simply under his prisoner identification number, C.3-3. After Oscar Wilde was released from prison, where he penned his meditation, De Profundis, starting with the aphorism: “Suffering is one very long moment.”, he wrote the poem.
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