Ballad of Reading Gaol
By Oscar Wilde
- Release Date: 1904-01-01
- Genre: Poetry
Score: 4.5
4.5
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The Ballad of Reading Gaol deals with the harsh realities of prison and with the even harsher reality of an execution, the taking of a human life, through legal means, by fellow humans. The world depicted in this poem is light-years away from the affluent drawing rooms in which his social comedies are set. It is equally distant from the fantasy worlds of his other poetry and his fairy tales.
