Now that you've listened to a song on dreaming, can you guess what his were?
Why, spending all of his time with the man of his dreams of course! And who was that? Lord Alfred Douglas. He wanted to be with him legally, morally, emotionally, physically and, greatest of all (or most tragic however you look at it) lovingly.
If you haven't guessed it by now, Oscar Wilde was a homosexual man living in a homophobic society. How homophobic? Once caught for involving himself in homosexual activity, Wilde was sentenced to two years hard labor, was shunned by his society and never recovered. He died alone just three years after being released.
Three years.
And alone.
How could this have happened? Wasn't Wilde just developing his own unique—however progressive and revolutionary—individuality? How could he have possibly been punished for this without actually doing harm to anyone else?
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