Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Great Regulars: He laments: "The vilest deeds

like poison weeds/Bloom well in prison-air:/It is only what is good in Man/That wastes and withers there:/Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate,/And the Warder is Despair." But still such lamentation can be understood as personal experience, not as indictment of an existing system. He later avers, "But God's eternal Laws are kind/And break the heart of stone." This claim reveals the speaker's ultimate understanding of karma or sowing and reaping.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol

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