Oscar Wilde...Revisited

While reading the works of Oscar Wilde I was immediately drawn to Impression du Matin, but did not really think much about the short poem Symphony in Yellow after I read it once. I decided to read over the poem again and immediately realized that it speaks of topics that are also contained in the longer Impression du Matin such as the Thames, hay, and the color yellow. I guess that because the poem is so short I had not given it as much thought and consideration as I had Wilde’s other works. After reading this poem I felt that there must have been some connection between the two works that runs deeper than the obvious shared topics, but I am not sure what that connection might be.

I noticed that both poems that I read by Oscar Wilde contained the color yellow, but in Impression du Matin yellow is used to describe a creeping fog, which sounds somewhat eerie. While in Symphony in Yellow the color yellow is used to describe several things in a beautiful and glorious manner, as though the color was somehow very special to the world and to Oscar Wilde in particular. I do not really understand the connections that are seen within the two poems, but I do hope to eventually be able to understand them and why they are there.