Lesson 4-The Nightingale and the Rose I. Text Analysis 3 Question: What's Oscar Wildes belief on love and art? Self-comment on his own life Some said my life was a lie but I always knew it to be the truth; for like the truth was rarely pure and never a figure of simple. paradox and Paradoxical, contradictory, well-turned phrase contradictio n Wildean dichotomy Duality in all aspects fascinates and confuses: the Anglo-Irishman with nationalist sympathies, the protestant with life-long Catholic leanings, the married homosexual; the musician of words and painter of language who confessed that writing bored him W B TL E To be continued on the next page.Lesson 4—The Nightingale and the Rose W B T L E I. Text Analysis Question: What’s Oscar Wilde’s belief on love and art?  To be continued on the next page. Self-comment on his own life “Some said my life was a lie but I always knew it to be the truth; for like the truth was rarely pure and never simple.” Paradoxical, contradictory, well-turned phrase Wildean dichotomy Duality in all aspects fascinates and confuses: the Anglo-Irishman with nationalist sympathies; the protestant with life-long Catholic leanings; the married homosexual; the musician of words and painter of language who confessed that writing bored him… a figure of paradox and contradictio n