The Lover

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…

The poems “Porphyria’s Lover” and “The Last Duchess” written by Robert Browning explain crimes of passion through the eyes of their perpetrators. These men are the lovers to Porphyria and the Duchess, respectively, who commit similar crimes of passion. However, as Browning changes his diction and prosody from poem to poem, their differences become more clear. Moreover, Browning’s differences in diction and prosody between “Porphyria’s Lover” and “The Last Duchess” help contrast the Duchess to…

Reform in Ideals: Sensuality and Sexuality Two books, Lady Chatterley’s Lover and The Well of Loneliness, stood as prominent examples of the 1920s. This was a time of change and radical ideas, particularly through sensuality and sexuality. Although the topic was still treated rather modestly, at least in English literature, two novelists, D.H. Lawrence and Radclyffe Hall, challenged constructs to write novels with ideas, themes, and morals revolved around sex and sexuality. In this respect,…

among writers is love. Although “The Daemon Lover” and “The Storm” have similar themes related to love, they also have their own differences in how love can be portrayed. In “The Daemon Lover”, the protagonist is stunned by her lost fiance, who she cannot find. It is this love for him that leads her into this obsession to desperately search for him. This is similar to “The Storm”, where love can lead to unwanted behaviour. The protagonist in “The Daemon Lover”, does not seem to be aware of his…

Often barriers withhold us from pursuing what we truly love, however, our ambition allows us to overcome these barriers and achieve a sense freedom. This precise course of action occurs in Tess Gallagher’s short story “The Lover of Horses”. “The Lover of Horses" concerns a woman, the narrator, who responds to her mother 's request to help bring her father home; he is drinking and gambling beyond reason. Instead of stopping him, she assists and encourages him. His obsessive nature is compared…

home state of Montana. She still practices employment law and civil litigation in Montana though she says killing people in books is much more fun. A national best-selling author, Budewitz is best known for the Spice Shop Mystery series and the Food Lovers Mystery series of novels that are set in northwest Montana. The books focus on two women Pepper Reece and Erin Murphy who she asserts share her passions and knack for running into trouble. As a legal practitioner, it is no surprise that…

It is often thought, who is the blame for the death of lovers in Romeo and Juliet? Well, the simple answer is that is all Romeo's fault. If Romeo wasn’t at the party and hadn’t killed Tybalt, the lovers, and others, would still be alive. In the play, Romeo is in love with the woman named Rosaline. The sad part is, Roseline had decided that she would be a virgin forever. Unable to return his love, Romeo felt that he would never love anybody else. Benvolio, Romeo’s cousin, and Romeo decided to go…

years of being apart. The first song that I have chosen to begin my suite is, “Vultures Like Lovers” by Wild Nothing. This song represents the beginning of my relationship with Kevin. The time when we were best friends but started to catch feelings for each other. At this time, life was so easygoing and carefree. We just went with the flow and had fun. The light, upbeat, and fun sound of “Vultures Like Lovers,” reminds me of all of the reckless nights that we had: sneaking into his car for…

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…

There are many religious connotations in Only Lovers Left Alive, Twilight, and Interview with a Vampire. For instance, the books and the film have common references to the book of Genesis in the bible. Therefore, God creating man from clay can be compared to vampires creating or turning other humans into vampires. As well as, the temptations of Adam and Eve from eating from the tree of knowledge can be related to the vampires and their temptations to avoid feeding from humans. Therefore, in…