Tædium Vitæ

Oscar Wilde * Track #59 On Poems

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Oscar Wilde

1881

Tædium Vitæ by Oscar Wilde

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“Taedium Vitae” is a Latin expression that roughtly translates to “Weariness of Life”, which Wilde describes heartbreak to be–a suiting closing to The Fourth Movement, whose theme revolves around the many colors of love.

The translation may also mirror a couplet from Wilde’s early “San Miniato”, th...

Tædium Vitæ Annotated

To stab my youth with desperate knives, to wear
This paltry age’s gaudy livery,
To let each base hand filch my treasury,
To mesh my soul within a woman’s hair,
And be mere Fortune’s lackeyed groom,—I swear
I love it not! these things are less to me
Than the thin foam that frets upon the sea,
Less than the thistle-down of summer air
Which hath no seed: better to stand aloof
Far from these slanderous fools who mock my life
Knowing me not, better the lowliest roof
Fit for the meanest hind to sojourn in,
Than to go back to that hoarse cave of strife
Where my white soul first kissed the mouth of sin.

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