Original poem reprinted online here: "A Vision" by Oscar Wilde Originally read: May 9, 2013 More information about the Poet: Oscar Wilde From the beginning I noticed two things. One, that the poem is an Elizabethan sonnet. Two, I tried my best to pin the images to allusions. Why? The poem doesn't make sense to me if the lines don't allude to certain things. But at the same time, I have to take the poem as is if I can't pinpoint the allusion. For example the first line, "Two crowned Kings, and One that stood alone" is a very narrative and heavy line. First, there are kings, and second the focus in the "One" that stood alone. Past me wrote "Dante?" But that doesn't make sense because Dante wasn't a king, nor did he aspire to be one. The entire time Past Me thought Antigone reading the description. But this isn't the case. The focus is of the third "one" (not the third king past me wrote). And look at the...
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