Abstract
This article aims to analyse the poetic traditions of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by S.T. Coleridge, which migrated into The Ballad of Reading Gaol by O. Wilde. A comparative analysis of original poems and their Russian translations reveals a thematic and structural link that connects these two poems. The article highlights the common features and the differences in literary devices used by Coleridge and Wilde to transmit the complex concepts of suffering and forgiveness through their characters and to declare values and philosophical ideas. The literary devices in point define how these concepts are covered, and serve a common theme in the work of Coleridge and Wilde. The article also provides arguments to confirm the social situation described in the works.
 The lyrico-epic genre allows using both poetry analysis tools and prose research methods, which ensures high-quality research.
 The article frames values of the modern culture and creates conditions for discovering a conceptual similarity in the symbolism of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
Highlights
The last work of Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), was the apotheosis of confession in his poetic work
Wilde’s The Ballad of Reading Gaol, in both original and Russian translations, as well as critical articles comprehending them. Russian translations of both poems include versions made in the late nineteenth – early twentieth centuries by F.B
From the number of translations, literary and critical responses, and echoes found in the works written by Russian writers, one may regard The Rime of the Ancient Mariner as the most famous work by S.T
Summary
The last work of Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), was the apotheosis of confession in his poetic work. The poem speaks about the suffering of a man in prison, about a murderer and, at the same time, a victim of a beautiful and dangerous feeling of love. In his letter to the closest friend, Robert Ross, Wilde writes: “...the horror of prison is that everything is so simple and commonplace in itself, and so degrading, and hideous, and revolting in its effect” (Letters between Oscar and Robbie Ross, 1987: 22). It was Ross, who prompted the very name The Ballad to O. The circumstances that occur make the character feel the grief of this contradiction
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