{"id":533,"date":"2022-03-11T02:39:02","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T02:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/?p=533"},"modified":"2022-03-11T02:39:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T02:39:02","slug":"blog-post-7-is-wilde-wild-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/2022\/03\/11\/blog-post-7-is-wilde-wild-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post 7: Is Wilde &#8220;Wild&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet born in 1854 part of the Victorian literary period and was known for being a spokesman for the new Aesthetic movement which encouraged \u201cart for art\u2019s sake\u201d where people expressed what they viewed as pure beauty instead of being constrained by moral expectations of the time. His poems were primarily categorized in genres of drama, criticism, and epigram, and he was famously known for his play <em>The Importance of Being Earnest<\/em> as well as his novel <em>The Picture of Dorian Gray<\/em>. At the time, Wilde was received very well because of his witty and flamboyant personality, and his plays were widely performed. However, in 1895 Wilde was exposed for having a homosexual affair with another man, was put on trial, and was arrested with charges of \u201cgross indencency.\u201d Wilde was imprisoned for two years and died from meningitis not long after at the age of 46.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I believe that Wilde was a wild writer because even though he wrote about stories and topics that may have been controversial, he did not hold back from fully expressing himself. Wilde boldly wrote about homosexuality, lust, murder, and other topics which were seen as controversial at the time in his works. Furthermore, Wilde was able to express his opinion on larger social themes through his works despite criticism from others. For example, in the poem <em>The Ballad of Reading Gaol,<\/em> Wilde writes about a man who is executed for killing his own wife. Wilde goes into gruesome detail that \u201cblood and wine were on his hands when they found him with the dead, the poor dead woman whom he loved\u2026\u201d He goes into further detail saying that \u201ceach man kills the thing he loves,\u201d alluding to his own affair with Lord Alfred Douglas, and how his love for their relationship resulted in his imprisonment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet born in 1854 part of the Victorian literary period and was known for being a spokesman for the new Aesthetic movement which encouraged \u201cart for art\u2019s sake\u201d where people expressed what they viewed as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/2022\/03\/11\/blog-post-7-is-wilde-wild-10\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":418,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-welcome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}