Porphyria's Lover

Regarded as a brilliant sinister dramatic monologue, 'Porphyria's Lover' by Robert Browning, challenges the perception of it's readers, in this case, creating a persona that is driven mad by his growing obsession throughout the poem. The poem is about a character who has a a difficult relationship with the woman he loves because she is unable to love him fully. It carefully illustrates the struggle for control between the two lovers drawing the reader into their twisted relationship with evidence of pure evil. Browning effectively makes use of imagery, language and content, that helps develop the unpleasant aspects of the character's personality gradually. The opening four lines of the poem is where the scene is set, in an isolated cold…

Comparison of “Last Duchess,” and “Lover.” (An analysis of Robert Browning’s poems, “Last Duchess,” and “Porphyria's Lover.”) Robert Browning was a victorian poet, who had a complex way of explicating the different types of love. There are many similarities betwixt the two poems. Firstly, in both poems, the man kills the woman, obviously with different motivations, but the outcome was similar. Secondly, he clarifies that both poems surround the fact that the women are victims of the man’s…

Porphyria’s Lover by Robert Browning is a twisted plot, because at the end of the poem the speaker is the killer. Porphyria’s Lover is a dramatic monologue; the speaker is expressing emotion about his uninvited lover. It’s a dark stormy night and Porphyria enters in the speaker home. Porphyria shut the door to the speaker home and warms his home. Then she grabs the speaker attention by seducing him; she let her damp hair falls on her shoulder and she undress herself. She lets her body speak for…

In Robert Browning’s dramatic monologue “Porphyria’s Lover”, we get a disturbing and unsettling tale of a man who strangles his lover with her own hair. The tone of this tale becomes even more worrying when you take into account the strict, stable meter that underlines the poem creates a weird tension between the murderous act and the way it is presented. The iambic tetrameter that scores the entire prose, breaks form at certain lines throughout the poem, the first break in the form occurs at…

remain glued to the page until the ending is revealed. Like other stories, “Porphyria’s Lover” focuses on a devastating love story with a horrid twist near the end. The tragic tale concludes with the maiden dying in the arms of her lover; however, the poem is vastly different than what one may assume. Robert Browning is unlike most authors throughout the Victorian era; he reveals a sinister vibe in his works. Because of the somber theme, the haunting imagery, and the dire symbols, one may…

mirror, is to be strangled by your own hair. Wait a minute that's not right but that's that's that's far from the same thing. With the two poems I am speaking of, Porphyria's Lover written by Robert Browning and Lady of Shalott written by Lord Tennyson, are the same in his many ways as they are different. This is like comparing two great works of art the Mona Lisa and the Starry Night both have beauty in their own ways. But you can't challenge either one about being more beautiful than the other…

The narrators of “Porphyria’s Lover” and “Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister” are both mad, but the madness manifests itself differently. Both narrators act irrationally towards one person, and that person becomes an object of their wrath. However, the narrator’s madness in “Porphyria’s Lover” ends in violence, while the monk’s madness in “Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister” manifests itself in an irrational hatred of a fellow monk. While the depictions of madness differ in how they are displayed,…

“Porphyria’s Lover” & “Neutral Tones”: The Sinister Similarities of the Speakers The loss of a loved one is perhaps the most difficult experience that humans ever come up against. The poem “Porphyria’s Lover”, written by Robert Browning, adds a sense of irony to this. At the most superficial layer, the speakers in both “Porphyria’s Lover” and “Neutral Tones”, written by Thomas Hardy, both deal with loss. The tones in “Neutral Tones” seem to be indifferent, or Neutral. The speaker of…

In the poem Porphyria’s Lover, by Robert Browning, I believe that the central theme is obsession. Throughout the poem, the narrator has what I believe to be an unhealthy obsession with a woman named Porphyria. The lover’s twisted and warped idea of love ultimately leads to Porphyria’s, and possibly his own, death. For starters, I could detect right off the bat that the love that the lover held for Porphyria was unhealthy. You can see this without reading the poem and by simply reading the…

Robert Browning, he tells about how a man became to irrationally afraid that he killed his wife. In “Porphyria's Lover” by Robert Browning, a girl wanders into the woods and finds a man who would then kill her. There are many comparisons and contrasts you can pull from Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess” and “Porphyria’s Lover”. One contrast between Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess” and “Porphyria’s Lover”, is that one is jealous because of love and the other is jealous for love. In “my…