Oscar Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. He became one of the most popular playwrights in 1890, after writing numerous writings in different formats through out 1880.
At an early age itself, Wilde was very fluent in German and French. He worked creatively as a journalist. Reputed for his ostentatious dress, impressive conversations, and stinging wit, he had become one among the most well-known personalities of his time.
Since his entry in the Trinity College, he had been publishing lyrics and poems to magazines, especially in the Dublin University Magazine. These writing did not go unnoticed. In 1881, when he was 27 years, he had his first publications on Poem Collected which had a record of selling 750 prints with the first copy itself. He used to write fairy stories also for magazines.
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A vision is a poem that describes or symbolizes human nature and the innocence on holds many a times and how they are being misinterpret. In the poem he portrays the story between three kings. Of them, two kings were crowned and only one stood alone, bearing no weight of his crown and supremacy on his head. But he had sad eyes, which reflected that there was something that worried him and moaning as he had been accused for sins that he has never done. His lips were flooded with tears and sweet kisses from those who came to see.
He says that even though the third king was not accepted, he was being tried. And at that place, Wilde happened to see broken stones, which means that all the birds and flowers near to him were being destroyed and left without being noticed. On seeing this sight, his heart begins to feel heavy and starts lighting with flame, which depicts his rise for anger. Around and ask to a lady, who are these men that are torturing the third man.
The lady, whom he calls in the poem as Beatrice knew very well who these were and was well versed with their names. She says that they were ‘Aeschylos firs and secondly it was the Sopholkes and lastly with tears she says it was Euripides. Here it shows that Aeschylos and Sopholkes were poets who were famous and well known and Euripides was also a poet who did not become as successful as the other two, in spite his poems had strong messages.
Here Wilde tries to resemble the last king, who feels abandoned and left alone and feels that he could not be at par to his fellow mates and they were being misjudged. The colors of the flowers and birds symbolize the innocence they had and had not done anything guilty, yet they were being punished.
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This poet tries to prove the innocence of him and tries to convince the world through this message.