The Ballad of Reading Gaol

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gptkbp:instanceOf poem
gptkbp:adaptation theatrical adaptations
musical adaptations
gptkbp:adaptedInto artistic performances
film adaptations
gptkbp:author gptkb:Oscar_Wilde
gptkbp:criticalReception mixed reviews
gptkbp:culturalImpact influenced LGBTQ+ literature
discussed in literary studies
gptkbp:formFactor lyric poem
gptkbp:genre narrative poem
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label The Ballad of Reading Gaol
gptkbp:influenced modern poetry
social justice movements
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Charles_Dickens
gptkb:John_Keats
gptkb:Walt_Whitman
Aestheticism
Victorian literature
gptkbp:influences Romanticism
Symbolism
gptkbp:inspiredBy Wilde's_imprisonment
gptkbp:language English
gptkbp:length over 1000 lines
gptkbp:motif redemption
guilt
prison life
societal_critique
gptkbp:narrativeStyle first-person
gptkbp:notableFeature human rights
the nature of love
the consequences of actions
the search for meaning
individual vs society
Yet each man kills the thing he loves.
gptkbp:opened And I am not sorry.
gptkbp:productLine He did not wear his scarlet coat.
gptkbp:publishedBy gptkb:Leonard_Smithers
gptkbp:publishedIn gptkb:The_Chiswick_Press
1898
gptkbp:relatedPatent The Picture of Dorian Gray
De Profundis
gptkbp:setting Reading Gaol
gptkbp:theme love
justice
death
suffering
gptkbp:translatedInto gptkb:Spanish
French
German
Italian