Question:
What is this poem about?
It is called 'Her Voice' by Oscar Wilde. I am studying many of his poems for a school project....but this one just doesn't make sense to me. Please help. Thanks :)
http://www.online-literature.com/wilde/2...
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
They are all wrong.
Wilde is saying that he wanted to tell it to you straight, but all he could do was muster up a poem instead. He is expressing great sorrow, because ultimately he knows that someday someone will be assigned this poem for homework and he knows that this will cause students not to like him and to judge him because a hundred years ago he wrote a poem and now someone else is being forced, against their will, to read this poem, in which he really wanted to say more, you know, like about life and love and stuff.