sahraaaksoy's review against another edition

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4.0

Oscar Wilde’ın tutukluluk hayatında kaleme aldığı, kendi durumunu bile unutmasına sebep olan bir subayın idama götüren hikayesini sanatsal bir şekilde kağıda döktüğü eserini okuma fırsatını yaklaşık bir sene sonra elde ettim.

Her ne kadar benim için sonlara doğru o büyüleyici etkisini kaybetmeye başlasa da genel hatlarıyla çok beğendiğin ve yer yer dersler aldığım bir şiir oldu.

Şiirin hikayesi kısaca aşığını kıskançlık sebebiyle öldüren bir subayın idama mahkum edilmesi ve sonrasında koğuş arkadaşlarının bu durum ile ilgili duygu ve düşüncelerinin neler olduğuydu.

Şiir ve özellikle yabancı edebiyatların şiirleri konusunda çok tecrübeli ve bilgili olmadığım için belki bu şiirin asıl anlamlarını ve sanatını anlamamış olabilirim ama bu haliyle bile beni etkilemeyi başardı.

Yazarın diğer kitaplarıyla görüşmek üzere…

bibispizzas's review against another edition

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dark emotional hopeful reflective

5.0

salam_'s review against another edition

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5.0

A Masterpiece!
I'm filled with this urgent need to read it aloud to everyone I see in front of me!

homoerotisch's review against another edition

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4.0

very emotional, would recommend

taun's review against another edition

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4.0

When Oscar Wilde had been convicted of ‘crimes of indecency’, aka his homosexual relationship, (using his work The Picture of Dorian Gray propped up as evidence during his trial), he was sentenced to two years hard labor. One of these stints was served at Reading Gaol. (Hence the name of the poem, published under his prisoner identification C.3-3)

The stanzas of the poem are written from his prisoner’s viewpoint of the condemned, with the execution of Thomas Wooldridge at it’s core, the poem is built of realism, but in the most gothic sense. In his last notable work, it’s painfully apparent that Oscar Wilde is a deeply wounded, nigh unto irreparable soul. His bravery to bring forward the reality of the prison system, treatment of the incarcerated, the private executions, the tortured people, and the reform he called for in turn meant that he had forced himself to relive over & over his time spent over those two years at the hands of a justice system that often failed its primary goal.

All this to say that, to understand where the author is writing from is truly key to feeling the severity of this poem. Wilde would never recover, & Reading Gaol is likely the hand that dealt him an early death.

sitnstew's review against another edition

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5.0

One of the better poetic works I've read.

idgaf's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

4.5

rvngrvs's review against another edition

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emotional reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

ivanaj's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.25

amelieoboken's review against another edition

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dark slow-paced

5.0