Zusammenfassung der Ressource
2.1- Anthology Text- Wilde's autobiography
- Tone
- Reflective
- Poetic
- Lyrical
- Sincere
- Confessional
- Philosophical
- Mode
- Extract from letter,
published 5 years
after Wilde's death
- Unconventional
- Subverts genre conventions
- Direct address to reader
- Stream of consciousness-
non-chronological
- Audience
- Wilde himself
- Alfred- lover,
nicknamed 'Bosie'
- Fans of Wilde
- Interested in prison in the late
1800s, and homosexuality
- Purpose
- To reflect
- To inform others' opinions
- To offer insight into
his life and emotions
- Annotations
- Auxillary verbs
- 'shall'
- Future- unconventional
- Autobiographies
usually reflect on past
- Parallelism
- 'when my father sent me to Oxford
and when society sent me to prison'
- Focus on change- from
Oxford to prison
- No control of situation- 'sent'
- 'I turned good things of
my life to evil, and the evil
things of my life to good.'
- Reversal- chiasmus
- Love of Bosie to to
bad- imprisonment
- Prison became valuable
- Alliteration
- 'maimed, marred
and incomplete'
- Nasal alliteration
- Lexical set of damage
- Parentheses
- '- the beauty of... making it silver -'
- Can't see in prison
- Comforting
- Untainted by society
- Syndetic list
- Indefinite gender neutral pronoun
- 'To regret one's... the
lips of one's own life'
- Critical of others
- Self-acceptance