REQUIESCAT
Tread lightly, she is near
Under the snow,
Speak gently, she can hear
The daisies grow.
All her bright golden hair
Tarnished with rust,
She that was young and fair
Fallen to dust.
Lily-like, white as snow,
She hardly knew
She was a woman, so
Sweetly she grew.
Coffin-board, heavy stone,
Lie on her breast,
I vex my heart alone,
She is at rest.
Peace, Peace, she cannot hear
Lyre or sonnet,
All my life's buried here,
Heap earth upon it.
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Who wrote the poem "Requiescat" ?
Oscar Wilde (October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900)
Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet, playwright,
and journalist. He attended Trinity College and Oxford University and became
involved in the newly emerging aesthetic movement. His works include poetry,
novels, and plays. His plays in particular became extremely popular in London
in the 1890s. He married Constance Lloyd in 1884 and had two sons. At the
pinnacle of his success, he began a homosexual affair with Lord Alfred Douglas
and was arrested and tried for gross indecency. He was convicted and sentenced
to two years’ hard labor, and was jailed from 1895 to 1897. He was released
with his health and reputation ruined and left for France and never returned.
He soon died of meningitis in 1900 at the age of 46.
"Requiescat" explanation
In the poem, the speaker describes the
feelings of sorrow and loss upon the death and burial of a woman. ‘Requiescat’
is a Latin word meaning ‘(may he or she) rest in peace.’ The woman in this poem
is thought to be Wilde’s sister, Isola Wilde, who died of fever at the age of 9
(when the poet was just 12). The poem, written in the 1880s before Wilde’s
downfall, was his deeply personal response to his little sister’s death.
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