A Healthy Mixture of Emotions In superior works of literature, a writer is able to produce a healthy confusion of pleasure and disquietude. As humans, we are apt to this mixture of emotions so we appreciate literature that has a healthy disarray. This incertitude of moods appeared in Robert Browning’s “Porphyria’s Lover”.
The poem begins with a level of pleasure as Porphyria arrives at her lover’s cottage. She is separated from society and she is purely infatuated with him. She gently situates herself in his home and wraps herself around her lover. When he realizes how much she worships him, he decides that it is time to kill her: “Be sure I looked up at her eyes / Happy and proud; at last I knew / Porphyria worshiped me” (Lines 31-33). In
The poem begins with a level of pleasure as Porphyria arrives at her lover’s cottage. She is separated from society and she is purely infatuated with him. She gently situates herself in his home and wraps herself around her lover. When he realizes how much she worships him, he decides that it is time to kill her: “Be sure I looked up at her eyes / Happy and proud; at last I knew / Porphyria worshiped me” (Lines 31-33). In