Friday, January 3, 2003

In The Forest Comments

Rating: 3.7

Out of the mid-wood's twilight
Into the meadow's dawn,
Ivory limbed and brown-eyed,
Flashes my Faun!
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Oscar Wilde
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Cathartic! Deeply reminiscent

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lividos lividos 08 July 2023

byi

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Chinedu Dike 29 August 2022

A beautiful creation nicely crafted with lovely rhyme scheme

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Sylvia Frances Chan 27 August 2022

THREE: whatever he had been (gay or not) this is a heart moving Classic Poem Of The Day. Such a tragedy his love affair with Bosie. What a tragic life!

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Sylvia Frances Chan 27 August 2022

TWO: Wilde's faun (or my Faun as he calls it) may even represent Oscar's most infamous lover — Bosie, aka Lord Alfred Douglas. Their affair would ultimately lead to Wilde's downfall.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 27 August 2022

ONE: Congratulations to the closest relatives of the late Oscar Wilde, amazing poem about a faun he wrote here, but having known his gay nature, I dare say that

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errie 14 January 2020

its an amazing poem and good entertainment for all audience

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Bernard F. Asuncion 16 October 2016

Congratulations for being selected poem of the day......

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Susan Williams 16 October 2016

Amazing how he wrote in such a way that I read it like I was light-footed and light-hearted and skipping after a shadow or a faun.

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Godfrey Morris 16 October 2016

Great write. Awesome poet.

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Anil Kumar Panda 16 October 2016

A beautiful poem indeed. Thanks for sharing.

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Ratnakar Mandlik 16 October 2016

moonstruck with music and madness i track him in vain Superb poetry penned by a great poet. Thanks for sharing it here.

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Mizzy ........ 16 October 2016

Gorgeous Nature piece.....

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Amar Agarwala 16 October 2016

Wonderfully thought and brilliantly written!

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Geoffrey Fafard 16 October 2016

Just so good Mr Wilde my dear poet. No one had more descriptive notions in his head than you...Writer of writers. Lord of the pen.

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Edward Kofi Louis 16 October 2016

I track him in vain! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

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M Asim Nehal 19 December 2015

O Hunter, O Nightingale and moon so many imagery, Awesome

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