To look into a cursed 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 is the retaliation will get from the art loving community. The same could be said about these two poems how they contrast so greatly but are both works of Beauty in their own way. Porphyria's Lover by Browning, and Lady of Shalott by Tennyson compare and contrast on many levels.
Porphyria's Lover by Browning, and Lady of Shalott by Tennyson, compare on one thing definitely. Neither kept with the norm. Both of these poems are very very controversial at the time and are even controversial now. You see Lover was controversial because of the graphic description that it had of a woman's murder it did not fly over lightly or go unnoticed. Just like now it was considered a very graphic and almost unwanted poem. Lady broke the norm in a different …show more content…
Porphyria's lover she has no one to view her accept her murderer who is also her lover. But he sees it as nothing different he lay your head down on his shoulder just sit there with her in the night. The view of the lady is different in Lady of Shalott she seems to be viewed as something that deserves pity. She's looked at by several even the prince who she died for in a sense. Which is sad because of the choices she made, she chose to not let rules to find her and to run her own way to take charge of her own life. But the only View people have of her. Is that she was
Porphyria's Lover by Browning, and Lady of Shalott by Tennyson, compare on one thing definitely. Neither kept with the norm. Both of these poems are very very controversial at the time and are even controversial now. You see Lover was controversial because of the graphic description that it had of a woman's murder it did not fly over lightly or go unnoticed. Just like now it was considered a very graphic and almost unwanted poem. Lady broke the norm in a different …show more content…
Porphyria's lover she has no one to view her accept her murderer who is also her lover. But he sees it as nothing different he lay your head down on his shoulder just sit there with her in the night. The view of the lady is different in Lady of Shalott she seems to be viewed as something that deserves pity. She's looked at by several even the prince who she died for in a sense. Which is sad because of the choices she made, she chose to not let rules to find her and to run her own way to take charge of her own life. But the only View people have of her. Is that she was