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Oscar Wilde's The Nightingale and the Rose

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             A nightingale, a bird. More specifically, a bird with feathers as colored with the oak of a tree, not bigger than a robin, where they have been praised for their melodic songs that they sing. Such a bird paired with a rose as the title suggests definitely blooms of the perfect romance story of perhaps a fine young prince, gifting the said nightingale to a fair maiden from a faraway land. Is what I would like to say about this story. This is Oscar Wilde's story. A story of a young male student, whom I suppose, fell in love at first sight upon seeing a professor's daughter. As I wrote, 'I suppose' is because the actions of this young man were rather naive and rushed when one is pursuing love with a soon-to-be significant other. Let me summarize this story in my own words for my readers. This is a story of where this young man wishes to ask the professor's daughter for a dance, to where she rejects the man, but only if he were to bring right ...