The boy lies in his garden distraught and crestfallen, because there are no red roses in the it. The poem is about an adolescent boy besotted with a young girl, and wants to dance with her in a ball, but she would oblige only if he gives her a red rose. It is a part of Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Happy Prince and Other Tales’. The Nightingale and the Rose is a simple poem of deep philosophical undertones. Some of his other works are ‘The Woman of No Substance’, ‘A House of Pomegranates’,’The Soul of Man under Socialism’, ‘The Importance of being Earnest’. Meningitis crippled him, and he succumbed to it when he was just 45. In his last days, he had become a pauper despite his large number of novels and plays that were relished by readers by scores of readers. He fled to Paris to avoid further ignominy, where he led a solitary life drowning himself in alcohol. He was jailed for two years of hard labour for obscenity which the society of today accepts as perfectly normal. Oscar Wilde was treated very shabbily by the legal system that prevailed during his days. The novel’s enduring charm continues to attract the reading public around the world. His novel, The Picture of Dorian Grey’ propelled him to the zenith of popularity among the literature lovers of his times. In his short span 0f 45 years, Oscar Wilde rose to great fame as a playwright and novelist. The Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar WildeĪbout the author … Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was born in Dublin.
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