The Picture of Dorian Gray enamoured of him. The Roman goddess of love then offers him eternal life with her in the Venusberg, and he accepts; yet, Tannhäuser becomes dissatisfied with life in the Venusberg, and returns to the harsh reality of the mortal world. After participating in a singing contest, Tannhäuser is censured for the sensuality of his art; eventually, he dies searching for repentance and the love of a good woman. About the literary hero, the author Oscar Wilde said, "in every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust." As in the legend of "Faust", in "The Picture of
The Last Picture in the World The Last Picture in the World The Last Picture in the World is a poem written by Canadian poet Al Purdy in 1999. It appears in the book "Beyond Remembering: the collected poems of Al Purdy" along with other poems that he wrote over his lifetime. <poem> A hunched grey shape framed by leaves with lake water behind standing on our little point of land like a small monk in a green monastery meditating except that it's alive brooding immobile permanent for half an hour a blue heron and it occurs to me that if I were to die at