The Demon 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…

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,…

Not all obsessions are bad. Sometimes they are good. However, when they are bad they can be really awful. This is the case in The Most Dangerous Game, by Richard Connell, and Porphyria’s Lover by Robert Browning. The Most Dangerous Game is about a man who hunts humans. Porphyria’s Lover is a poem about a man who is deeply in love with a woman who cannot be with him, so he kills her. Richard Connell and Robert Browning use extremely descriptive characterization to convey a theme that obsession…

In Lady Chatterley’s Lover, a strong, powerful female protagonist takes the lead against the repressed mental state (that’s a first). “A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it” (Lawrence 73). And Lawrence evokes powerful messages, or lessons. “Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass” (Lawrence 271). In other words, adhering to the mechanized…

The Analysis of the Three Poems “My Papa’s Waltz”, “My Father’s Hats” and “Those Winter Sundays” are poems which are real exciting and express the love of fathers towards their kids. In these poems they describe to us the friendship between children and their fathers. The poem “My Papa’s Waltz” explains how a young boy was dancing waltz music with his drunken father. The young son appeared to enjoy having fun with his father while dancing despite the fact that he kept on chafing his ear on his…

From the Mixed- Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Written by Elaine Lobl (E.L.) Konigsberg, From the Mixed- Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler has always been my favorite book despite being published in 1967. In 1968, it had become the first book to ever to be awarded both the Newbery Medal and the Newberry Honor within the same year (Barnes & Noble). This iconic book was written in a sophisticated manner due to its English literature essence. The two main characters, Claudia and Jamie,…

Sweeney Todd was rescued at sea by a young sailor by the name of Anthony Hope, and the two are on their way to London. Once they reach land Todds mood is worsened by a crazy beggar who asks Todd and Hope for spare change she also appears to recognize Todd. Anthony’s innocence is discouraged by Todd, when Todd tells a story about a barber, his wife and a corrupt judged who exiled the barber just to get at the barbers wife. After Todd enters a nearby meat pie shop on Fleet Street he asks the owner…

In the poem Forget Me Not, the narrator talks about his dead enemy and his lover that would be mortally hurt. This poem has a negative view of death. The soldiers went back to where the killed the enemy. On the place where the call it the “nightmare ground.” The narrator used the word sprawling to describe the soldier’s position when the enemy died and left there decomposing under the sun. His tone in this stanza is grim. In (Stanza 2, Line 2) "We" is the narrator and his fellow combatants. The…

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These references focus mainly on religious concepts of souls, angels, and demons. These references take both setting to a more mythological setting. The setting in Annabel Lee is simple, repeated only as a "kingdom by the sea." (Poe line 2). This lets the poem 's audience to place the setting just about anywhere they want. In…