Oscar Wilde

I am drawn to the works of Oscar Wilde because of the way that he speaks of everyday images and everyday occurrences with such elegance and beauty that it makes me wonder if the things that he and I know are even the same. In particular, I find the language and descriptions that are used in his poem Impression du Matin because everything that he speaks of in the lines of this poem seems to come to life in my mind. I liked the way that he gives human characteristics to things that have no life. One such instance of this is when he speaks of the fog and how it “came creeping down”. I really liked this style because it allowed me to clearly imagine the fog and the way that it was moving and that helped me to remain interested in the rest of the poem.

I also found the lines which state:

The bridges, till the houses’ walls
Seemed changed to shadows and St. Paul’s
Loomed like a bubble o’er the town.

to be very interesting because, again, of the language that Wilde uses and the elegance of his descriptions. I really liked the fact that I was able to wrap my mind around almost every image that Wilde wrote about in this work. I found that when I read the work again, I felt drawn farther into the imagery that Oscar Wilde used in this particular poem. The final stanza of the poem was also something that I took interest in because it starts off very plain and ends beautifully.

But one pale woman all alone,
The daylight kissing her wan hair,
Loitered beneath the gas lamps’ flare,
With lips of flame and heart of stone.

The image that is being created in the beginning of this stanza is of a very plain woman that seems completely ordinary, but in the last two lines of the stanza she is changed into something that is so much more than a plain, ordinary woman that you see every day and never think about after the chance meeting.