The Ballad of Reading Gaol Vladimir Mayakovsky religion and disillusionment

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The Ballad of Reading Gaol Vladimir Mayakovsky religion and disillusionmentYet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword! In May of 1895, the centurys most dazzling man of letters was sentenced to two years with hard labour for acts of gross indecency with another male person. On his release he moved to France, where he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol: an anguished plea for prison