39-413: (Redirected from Happy Prince ) The Happy Prince may refer to: The Happy Prince and Other Tales , a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde "The Happy Prince" (story) , the title story of the collection The Happy Prince (Bing Crosby and Orson Welles album) , a 1946 studio album of phonograph records by Bing Crosby and Orson Welles of
78-421: A frog , dragonfly , and duck that meet him with appropriate disdain. Two boys find him and use him as fuel for their camp-fire. The rocket is finally lit and explodes, but nobody observes him – the only effect he has is to frighten a goose with his falling stick. "The Remarkable Rocket," unlike the other stories in the collection, contains a large number of Wildean epigrams : "Conversation, indeed!" said
117-558: A doctor for Hugh's son, who had hurt himself, but as it was a stormy and rainy night, he could barely see where he was going. After finding the doctor, on the way back home, he gets lost and drowns in a hole full of water. Hugh, exaggerating his sadness, attends Hans's funeral, and the linnet's story is concluded with the following sentence: "'A great loss to me at any rate,' answered the Miller; 'why, I had as good as given him my wheelbarrow, and now I really don't know what to do with it. It
156-419: A miller who used to visit Hans very often during the summer time and with whom he shared thoughts about friendship and loyalty. Hans was so devoted to Hugh that he even gifted him whole bunches of flowers from his own garden. However, when winter came, Hans found himself in a very difficult situation, as his flowers wouldn't flourish anymore until the following spring, meaning that he was impoverished, living on
195-417: A simple diet of a few pears and hard nuts. That winter was so stark that he had to sell some of his useful gardening tools, including his wheelbarrow, a silver chain, his pipe and some silver buttons. Meanwhile, the miller lived comfortably in his own house and avoided visiting his friend or helping him in any way, not to make him jealous and spoil, if not break, their friendship. Finally, Spring came, and it
234-465: A stronger face-pattern, including a pale supercilium . The song of the male nightingale has been described as one of the most beautiful sounds in nature, inspiring songs , fairy tales , opera , books , and a great deal of poetry. However, historically most people were not aware that female nightingales do not sing. It is a migratory insectivorous species breeding in forest and scrub in Europe and
273-561: Is Latin for "nightingale" and megarhynchos is from Ancient Greek megas , "great" and rhunkhos "bill". The common nightingale is slightly larger than the European robin , at 15–16.5 cm (5.9–6.5 in) length. It is plain brown above except for the reddish tail. It is buff to white below. The sexes are similar. The eastern subspecies ( L. m. golzi ) and the Caucasian subspecies ( L. m. africana ) have paler upper parts and
312-524: Is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde , first published in May 1888. It contains five stories that are highly popular among children and frequently read in schools: "The Happy Prince," "The Nightingale and the Rose," "The Selfish Giant," "The Devoted Friend," and " The Remarkable Rocket ." In 2003, the second through fourth stories were adapted by Lupus Films and Terraglyph Interactive Studios into
351-487: Is a small passerine bird which is best known for its powerful and beautiful song . It was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae , but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher , Muscicapidae . It belongs to a group of more terrestrial species, often called chats . "Nightingale" is derived from "night" and the Old English galan , "to sing". The genus name Luscinia
390-403: Is assumed to be important in defending the bird's territory. Nightingales sing even more loudly in urban or near-urban environments, in order to overcome the background noise. The most characteristic feature of the song is a loud whistling crescendo that is absent from the song of its close relative, the thrush nightingale (Luscinia luscinia). It has a frog-like alarm call. The bird is a host of
429-423: Is the focus of Sophocles ' tragedy, Tereus , of which only fragments remain. Ovid , too, in his Metamorphoses , includes the most popular version of this myth, imitated and altered by later poets, including Chrétien de Troyes , Geoffrey Chaucer , John Gower , and George Gascoigne . T.S. Eliot 's " The Waste Land " also evokes the common nightingale's song (and the myth of Philomela and Procne). Because of
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#1732780973597468-568: Is very much in my way at home, and it is in such bad repair that I could not get anything for it if I sold it. I will certainly take care not to give away anything again. One always suffers for being generous.'" The water-rat, however, is unmoved by the story, saying that he would rather have not had listened to it, and disappears into his home. This story has been adapted for comics by the cartoonist P. Craig Russell, in Volume 4 of "Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde," which also includes "The Nightingale and
507-639: The Palearctic , and wintering in Sub-Saharan Africa . It is not found naturally in the Americas . The distribution is more southerly than the very closely related thrush nightingale Luscinia luscinia . It nests on or near the ground in dense vegetation. Research in Germany found that favoured breeding habitat of nightingales was defined by a number of geographical factors. In the U.K.,
546-452: The acanthocephalan intestinal parasite Apororhynchus silesiacus . The common nightingale is an important symbol for poets from a variety of ages, and has taken on a number of symbolic connotations. Homer evokes Aëdon the nightingale in Odyssey , suggesting the myth of Philomela and Procne (one of whom, depending on the myth's version, is turned into a nightingale ). This myth
585-485: The Cornish Ogre for seven years, he takes offence at the children and builds a wall to keep them out. He puts up a notice board "TRESPASSERS WILL BE PROSECUTED." The garden falls into perpetual winter. One day, the giant is awakened by a linnet , and discovers that spring has returned to the garden, as the children have found a way in through a gap in the wall. He sees the error of his ways, and resolves to destroy
624-461: The Giant; "tell me, that I may take my big sword and slay him." "Nay!" answered the child; "but these are the wounds of Love." "Who are you?" said the Giant, and a strange awe fell on him, and he knelt before the little child. And the child smiled on the Giant, and said to him, "You let me play once in your garden, to-day you shall come with me to my garden, which is Paradise." Shortly afterwards,
663-519: The Happy Prince asks the swallow to take the ruby from his hilt, the sapphires from his eyes, and the gold leaf covering his body to give to the poor. As winter comes and the Happy Prince is stripped of all of his beauty, his lead heart breaks when the swallow dies as a result of his selfless deeds and severe cold. The people, unaware of their good deeds, take the statue down from the pillar due to its shabbiness (intending to replace it with one of
702-501: The Mayor ) and melt the metal in a furnace, leaving behind the broken heart and the dead swallow, which are thrown in a dust heap. These are taken up to heaven by an Angel that has deemed them the two most precious things in the city. This is affirmed by God, and they live forever in His "city of gold" and garden of Paradise . This story is an allegory of the moral decay and materialism of
741-514: The Oscar Wilde short story "The Happy Prince" The Happy Prince (The La De Das album) , a 1969 album by New Zealand rock band The La De Da's The Happy Prince (1974 film) , an animated short film adaptation of the short story by Oscar Wilde The Happy Prince (2018 film) , a British biographical drama film about Oscar Wilde Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
780-637: The Rocket. "You have talked the whole time yourself. That is not conversation." "Somebody must listen," answered the Frog, "and I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments." "But I like arguments," said the Rocket. "I hope not," said the Frog complacently. "Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions." Sources Common nightingale The common nightingale , rufous nightingale or simply nightingale ( Luscinia megarhynchos ),
819-445: The Rose." This story concerns a firework, who is one of many to be let off at the wedding of a prince and princess . The rocket is extremely pompous and self-important, and denigrates all the other fireworks, eventually bursting into tears to demonstrate his "sensitivity." As this makes him wet, he fails to ignite and, the next day, is thrown away into a ditch. He still believes he is destined for great public importance, and treats
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897-515: The arrogance of that perfection. The nightingale is used symbolically in the Baha'i Faith to represent the founder Baha'u'llah . Baha'is utilise this metaphor to convey how Baha'u'llah's writings are of beautiful quality, much like how the nightingale's singing is revered for its beautiful quality in Persian music and literature. Nightingales are mentioned in much of Baha'u'llah's works, including
936-475: The bird is at the northern limit of its range which has contracted in recent years, placing it on the red list for conservation. Despite local efforts to safeguard its favoured coppice and scrub habitat, numbers fell by 53 percent between 1995 and 2008. A survey conducted by the British Trust for Ornithology in 2012 and 2013 recorded some 3,300 territories, with most of these clustered in a few counties in
975-515: The children all the time, the Giant is old and feeble. One winter morning, he awakes to see the trees in one part of his garden in full blossom. He descends from the castle to discover the boy that he once helped standing beneath a beautiful white tree. The Giant sees that the boy bears the stigmata . He does not realise that the boy is actually the Christ Child and is furious that somebody has wounded him. "Who hath dared to wound thee?" cried
1014-410: The female sang when it is in fact the male. The song is loud, with an impressive range of whistles, trills and gurgles. Its song is particularly noticeable at night because few other birds are singing. This is why its name includes "night" in several languages. Only unpaired males sing regularly at night, and nocturnal song probably serves to attract a mate. Singing at dawn, during the hour before sunrise,
1053-404: The happy giant dies. That same afternoon, his body is found lying under the tree, covered in blossoms. Once upon a time, there was a kind and honest man named Hans. He lived alone in a tiny cottage. Hans was a little man who owned a beautiful garden, where he grew flowers of all kinds and colours which were sold in the market to make some money. He enjoyed the company of another man called Hugh,
1092-409: The memory of the nightingale's song makes man happy." The nightingale is the official national bird of Iran . In medieval Persian literature , the nightingale's enjoyable song has made it a symbol of the lover who is eloquent, passionate, and doomed to love in vain. In Persian poetry, the object of the nightingale's affections is the rose which embodies both the perfection of earthly beauty and
1131-476: The muse. The nightingale has a long history with symbolic associations ranging from "creativity, the muse, nature's purity, and, in Western spiritual tradition, virtue and goodness." Coleridge and Wordsworth saw the nightingale more as an instance of natural poetic creation: the nightingale became a voice of nature. John Keats ' " Ode to a Nightingale " pictures the nightingale as an idealized poet who has achieved
1170-608: The poetry that Keats longs to write. Invoking a similar conception of the nightingale, Shelley wrote in his “A Defence of Poetry": The nightingale is the national bird of Ukraine . One legend tells how nightingales once only lived in India , when one nightingale visited Ukraine. Hearing sad songs from the people, the nightingale sang its song to cheer them up. The people responded with happy songs, and since then, nightingales have visited Ukraine every spring to hear Ukrainian songs . National poet Taras Shevchenko observed that "even
1209-512: The rose all night with her heart pressing into a thorn, sacrificing her life. Seeing the student in tears, and valuing his human life above her bird life, the nightingale carries out the ritual and dies painfully. The student takes the rose to the professor's daughter, but she again rejects him because the Chamberlain's nephew has sent her some real jewels, and "everybody knows that jewels cost far more than flowers." The student angrily throws
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1248-414: The rose into the gutter, returns to his study of metaphysics, and decides not to believe in true love anymore. There are many adaptations of this story in the form of operas and ballets. These include: The Selfish Giant owns a beautiful garden which has 12 peach trees and lovely fragrant flowers, in which children love to play after returning from school. On the giant's return after visiting his friend
1287-565: The southeast of England, notably Kent, Essex, Suffolk, and East and West Sussex. By contrast, the European breeding population is estimated at between 3.2 and 7 million pairs, giving it green conservation status ( least concern ). Common nightingales are so named because they frequently sing at night as well as during the day. The name has been used for more than 1,000 years, being highly recognisable even in its Old English form nihtegale , which means "night songstress". Early writers assumed
1326-407: The three-part series Wilde Stories for Channel 4 . In a town full of suffering poor people, a swallow who was left behind after his flock flew off to Egypt for the winter meets the statue of the late "Happy Prince," who has never experienced true sorrow, for he lived in a palace where sorrow was not allowed to enter. Viewing various scenes of people suffering in poverty from his tall monument,
1365-537: The title The Happy Prince . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Happy_Prince&oldid=1228221361 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Happy Prince and Other Tales The Happy Prince and Other Tales (or Stories )
1404-416: The violence associated with the myth, the nightingale's song was long interpreted as a lament. The common nightingale has also been used as a symbol of poets or their poetry. Poets chose the nightingale as a symbol because of its creative and seemingly spontaneous song. Aristophanes 's The Birds and Callimachus both evoke the bird's song as a form of poetry. Virgil compares the mourning of Orpheus to
1443-441: The wall. However, when he emerges from his castle, all the children run away except for one boy who was trying to climb a tree. The giant helps this boy into the tree and announces: "It is your garden now, little children," and knocks down the wall. The children once more play in the garden, and Spring returns. But the boy that the Giant helped does not return, and the Giant is heartbroken. Many years later, after happily playing with
1482-473: The “lament of the nightingale”. In Sonnet 102 Shakespeare compares his love poetry to the song of the common nightingale (Philomel): During the Romantic era the bird's symbolism changed once more: poets viewed the nightingale not only as a poet in his own right, but as “master of a superior art that could inspire the human poet”. For some romantic poets, the nightingale even began to take on qualities of
1521-409: Was time for Hans to sell some of his primroses in order to buy back his silver buttons. Hugh finally visits him, and, hearing about his problem, he decides to kindly gift him his old, broken wheelbarrow in exchange for a few favours. Hans naively accepts the deal, but the unceasing requests of the miller keeps him busy to the point that he cannot tend his garden. One day, Hans was asked to go and seek
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