E TENEBRIS: As the title suggests this Poem Content tell about that it involves someone coming out of a dark situation. “E TENEBRIS” means “Out of Darkness.” Poet Oscar Wilde was a great writer and poet in this Era. His plays, short stories, and poems inspired a great number of people in the Victorian Era
In this Poem, Oscar Wilde addresses God and this poem isn’t the only one of it’s kind. It shows that Wilde was a Godfearing man and believed in his Saviour
E TENEBRIS Poem Wording
For I am drowning in a stormier sea
Than Simon on Thy lake of Galilee:
The wine of life is spilt upon the sand,
My heart is as some famine-murdered land
Whence all good things have perished utterly,
And well I know my soul in Hell must lie
If I this night before God’s throne should stand.
‘He sleeps perchance, or rideth to the chase,
Like Baal, when his prophets howled that name
From morn to noon on Carmel’s smitten height.’
Nay, peace, I shall behold, before the night,
The feet of brass, the robe more white than flame,
The wounded hands, the weary human face.
E TENEBRIS Analysis
Wilde writes as a man who is undergoing immense pain. He calls out to Christ to set foot on the earth again and to relieve him of his pain. He asks for His guidance for he thinks he will be sent to Hell if he were to be judged by the Gods.
Here, Wilde addresses God and this poem isn’t the only one of it’s kind. It shows that Wilde was a Godfearing man and believed in his Saviour.
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