The Grave of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde is a name that I believe we have all heard, but few actually know who he is. This may be because his life style was such that many people are uncomfortable talking about him a lot. He was a Dublin born poet, playwrite and author who lived from 1854 to 1900. He wrote a lot of things that are apparently quite famous, but I really don't know very much about. The only of his works that I am familiar with is The Importance of Being Earnest, which features a scene that may be considered the most poorly overdone High School drama competition piece ever. Though the writing of such a scene was certainly merit for being sentenced to two years of hard labor in a British prison, that was not the reason for his conviction. Instead it was sodomy with minors, which was not only illegal back then but very disgusting. As it is now. This monument over his remains was comissioned by Oscar's number one lover, Robert Ross, and Robert's ashes were buried underneath the monument as well. All the red dots on it are the kiss marks from lip-stick wearing fans, as goes the tradition. The question I still have in the back of my mind is, how many of those kiss marks were placed there by those who really shouldn't be wearing lip stick?