Nightingale and Rose by Oscar Wilde

For Digital ePortfolio reading again B. A. texts.

Really it is a great feeling to read the short story of Oscar Wilde. Because if we look into the personal life of the writer then it is full of suffering. he was heavily talking opium. at the same time he has spent his last year of life in prison, so no one can expect great thing from him. but it is not so. 

What we have learn from the theory of DEPERSONALIZATION , that work of art and poet- writer  are two different entity. we shouldn't be judgmental that if writer's personal life is disturbed, then his writing also not will be good.

there are many examples in literature, for example, Eugene O'Neill that his personal life was also full of pain and suffering. but then even he is famous as American Shakespeare. His works are tremendously popular among the people. My point is that WORK IS IMPORTANT, not the personal life. 

Nightingale and Rose is very short, simple and touching story. within few pages what writer tell that can't be told in even long books. on the one side we have beautiful, sweet Nightingale who sacrifice life for love, and when we come to know that boy has thrown Red Rose , we feel sorry for Nightingale.

..............'No red rose in all my garden!' he cried,

and his beautiful eyes filled with tears. 'Ah, on

what little things does happiness depend! I have

read all that the wise men have written, and all

the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want

of a red rose is my life made wretched.'.............

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→'If you want a red rose,' said the Tree, 'you

must build it out of music by moonlight, and

stain it with your own heart's-blood. You must

sing to me with your breast against a thorn. All

night long you must sing to me, and the thorn

must pierce your heart, and your life-blood

must flow into my veins, and become mine.'

★ 'Death is a great price to pay for a red

rose,' cried the Nightingale, 'and Life is very

dear to all. It is pleasant to sit in the green

wood, and to watch the Sun in his chariot of

gold, and the Moon in her chariot of pearl.

Sweet is the scent of the hawthorn, and sweet

are the bluebells that hide in the valley, and

the heather that blows on the hill. Yet Love is

better than Life, and what is the heart of a

bird compared to the heart of a man?

..................

.... 'Look, look!' cried the Tree, 'the rose is

finished now;' but the Nightingale made no

answer, for she was lying dead in the long

grass, with the thorn in her heart...................

But the girl frowned.

'I am afraid it will not go with my dress,'

she answered; 'and, besides, the Chamberlain's

nephew has sent me some real jewels, and

everybody knows that jewels cost far more than

flowers.'..........

.......... he

threw the rose into the street, where it fell into

the gutter, and a cart-wheel went over it.............

...... 'What a silly thing Love is,' said the Student

as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as

Logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is

always telling one of things that are not going to

happen, and making one believe things that are

not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and,

as in this age to be practical is everything, I

shall go back to Philosophy and study

Metaphysics.'

So he returned to his room and pulled out a

great dusty book, and began to read.!!!!!!!!!!!!