Quote:
Originally Posted by garinda
"Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard.''
Oscar Wilde.
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But who has the "bitter look"? Who is the flatterer? Who is doing the kissing, and who is wielding the sword?
I've always wondered why, in the seventh stanza, it is "each man"; yet in the final stanza, it becomes "all men" .... maybe, in the body of the poem, Wilde shifts his focus from the specific to the general .... oops, I'm rambling again
