The speaker of this poem, which was originally published under the name "C.3.3.", asks "How else but through a broken heart / May Lord Christ enter in?" Its speaker describes how "alien tears" will fill "Pity's long-broken urn" and notes that "outcasts always mourn" in a quatrain from this poem chosen as the epitaph on its author's tomb. Its sixth section describes a "pit of shame" containing a "wretched man / eaten by teeth of flame". Its speaker earlier watched that man look "so wistfully at the day" while walking "among the (*) Trial Men / i
The speaker of this poem, which was originally published under the name "C.3.3.", asks "How else but through a broken heart / May Lord Christ enter in?" Its speaker describes how "alien tears" will fill "Pity's long-broken urn" and notes that "outcasts always mourn" in a quatrain from this poem chosen as the epitaph on its author's tomb. Its sixth section describes a "pit of shame" containing a "wretched man / eaten by teeth of flame". Its speaker earlier watched that man look "so wistfully at the day" while walking "among the (*) Trial Men / in a suit of shabby grey". Ruminating on that man leads the speaker to consider a certain action, which the coward does "with a kiss" and the brave man does "with a sword". For 10 points, the idea that "each man kills the thing he loves" is expressed by which poem, written shortly after Oscar Wilde's release from the title prison?
The speaker of this poem, which was originally published under the name "C.3.3.", asks "How else but through a broken heart /
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