The Nightingale and the Rose Oscar Wilde by
A nightingale overhears a student complaining that his professor's daughter will not dance with him, as he is unable to give her a red rose. The nightingale visits all the rose-trees in the garden, and one of the white roses tell her that there's a way to produce a red rose, but only if the nightingale is prepared to sing the sweetest song for the rose all night, and sacrifice her life to do so. Seeing the student in tears, the nightingale carries out the ritual, and impales herself on the rose-tree's thorn so that her heart's blood can stain the rose. The student takes the rose to the professor's daughter, but she again rejects him because another man has sent her some real jewels, and "everybody knows that jewels cost far more than flowers." The student angrily throws the rose into the gutter, returns to his study of metaphysics, and decides not to believe in true love anymore.
Love needs scarification
The rose symbolized pure love. Throughout the story, pure love is the most important trait that affect each character’s crucial decisions. As what the nightingale has said, “Yet love is better than life”. The student weep for true love, the nightingale eventually sacrificed for true love, the lover ignorance and despise for true love, and all other animals find true love a rather ridicules fallacy.
Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde by
Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde contains the following seventeen poems The Ballad Of Reading Gaol, Ave Imperatrix, To My Wife - With A Copy Of My Poems, Magdalen Walks, Theocritus - A Villanelle, Greece, Portia, Fabien Dei Franchi, Phedre, Sonnet On Hearing The Dies Irae Sung In The Sistine Chapel, Ave Maria Gratia Plena, Libertatis Sacra Fames, Roses And Rue, From 'The Garden Of Eros', The Harlot's House, From 'The Burden Of Itys', Flower of Love
Requiescat:
Love for family members
Requiescat is a poem Wilde wrote to honor and reminisce his beloved sister who tragically died at the age of 10. Oscar Wilde has a deep connection with his sister, shown by how much he missed and grieved her in the poem.
The New Remorse
To love in different yet imperfect ways
The poem is about a narrator who still love their lover discuss about how their lover has a new company. In this poem there're two type of love:
The mutual love: from the narrator’s lover and their new company.
The one-way love: from the narrator to their lover
Roses and Rue
To reminisce the lost of love is a process
The poem is about a young lover mourn for their lost love. The narrator tried to reminisce the pure love they used to have by sank themselves in deep the memory of the days they spent with their lover.
A Woman of No Importance by
Devilishly attractive Lord Illingworth is notorious for his skill as a seducer. But he is still invited to all the best houses while his female conquests must hide their shame in seclusion. In this devastating drawing - room comedy, Wilde uses his celebrated wit to expose English societys narrow view of everything from sexual mores to Americans.
How love is viewed within eyes of different people.
In the play, the topic love has been discussed several times. Oscar Wilde use contradicted characters to show how generation, sex, and background can shape a human’s view towards love differently.