quotes and analysis

• 'I want'


  bitter

  lacking acceptance

  aspirational

  modal auxilary verb

  hope
• 'I shall'


  self realisation
• 'without affectation'


  naturally
• 'my father sent me to Oxford' 'society sent me to prison'


  no agency

  objectified

  Oxford and prison contrasting, both prisons

  parellels
• 'prison is the best thing that could have happened to me'


  understatment

  allowed him to reflect
• 'typical child of my age'


  decadence
• 'perversity'


  contrary
• 'good things of my life'


  marriage

  family - were with him, became corrupted
• 'evil things of my life'


  antithesis

  love for men
• 'matters little'


  heightened language
• 'thing' 'the thing'


  passive voice

  no agency

  incremental

  anaphora - builds dramatic voice
• 'brief'


  hyperbole
• 'maimed, marred and incomplete'


  triad

  profound

  emotive
• 'absorb into my nature'


  metaphor

  confessional
• 'complaint, fear or reluctance'


  triad
• 'the supreme vice'


  victorian society

  Bosie
• 'whatever is realised is right'


  simple declarative
• 'ruinous advice'


  noun phrase

  needs authenticity
• 'what I am'


  leaves his sexuality ambiguous
• 'I am advised by others'


  cohesion
• 'equally fatal'


  hyperbole

  dramatic

  died soon after
• 'haunted'


  critiques society's hypocrisy
• 'intolerable sense of disgrace'


  metaphor

  effect of his identity

  accept or live in misery
• 'music of daybreak'


  metaphor
• 'dew creeping'


  personification

  poetic joys of nature
• 'put a lie into the lips of one's own life'


  tragic

  metaphor

  move from defiant to reflective beauty - poetic structure
• 'it is no less than a denial of the soul'


  ends with bold declarative

  profound realisation

  defiant

  axiomatic conclusion

  pure statement
• concept

  if can't be true about who we are - destroy our own lives

  society destroyed his life
• contextual concept

  setting himself an opposition of the victorian society's attitudes towards sexuality