Oskar Wilde is famous poet as well as a playwright and his prose works are not less poetic than his poetry. Salome play is full of metaphoric, lyrical elements. The one extended metaphor that longs the whole play is the relation between Salome and moon.
The line of Herod are:
Has she not a strange look? She is like a mad woman, a mad woman who is seeking everywhere for lovers. She is naked too. She is quite naked. The clouds are seeking to clothe her nakedness, but she will not let them. She shows herself naked in the sky. She reels through the ...