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    In Porphyria’s Lover, Robert Browning portrays how someone can go mad over love, however through a “discerning eye” these actions could be reasonable. In “Porphyria's Lover” the speaker tries to force a woman’s love upon him even though she doesn’t feel the same way that he does. She doesn’t want to be with him so he ends up killing her so that she would be with him forever. She comes into the house and takes off all of her sopping wet clothes and he see’s her and he just goes crazy over

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    1. “Porphyria’s Lover” by Robert Browning is mostly an iambic tetrameter poem with an ABABB rhyme scheme. Although this is a fairly regular pattern, there is more “B”s than “A”s, making the poem’s rhyme scheme a little more unique. The poem reads almost like a fun children’s nursery rhyme, which adds to the disturbing nature of the poem. 2. This poem has a very noticeable plotline in which our narrator, Porphyria’s Lover, tells his readers how his lover, Porphyria, came over to his home and he realized

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    with their obscene, in the act of passion. Porphyria's lover was a cold-hearted soul. Shortly after Porphyria's lover killed Porphyria he was confessing his love. Her lifeless body replaying the moment in his head. “Be sure I looked up at her eyes happy and proud; at last, I knew Porphyria worshiped me” He felt power over her his passion for her love was so strong that he felt Porphyria worshiped him at his feet. She was wet, and pail she walked to her lover, and he started choking her which her own

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    Jennifer Bowers C. Grieneisen Enc 1102 8 September 2015 Contradicting Lover "Porphyria's Lover" is one Browning's first dramatic monologues, published 1836 in a magazine using the title “Porphyria”. This form of his dramatic monologues is a first person narrator who presents an exceedingly subjective perspective on a story, with Browning's message isn’t seen in the text but through the ironic disconnect of what the speaker rationalizes and what is apparent to the audience. In this poem, the irony

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    Browning poem “Porphyria’s Lover” is dramatic monologue and this a type of poem that consist of a character in which the speaker unintentionally describes characters while events are still in motion. When it comes to “Porphyria’s Lover” this poem narrates a murder that happens in a stormy night in which the narrator is sitting in his cottage and out nowhere Porphyria, the girl he liked, appears and starts a fire. Then she sits next to the narrator and tells him that she is in love with him as she

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    Porphyria’s Lover is a typical dramatic monologue by Browning, where we get an insight into the narrator’s thoughts. In the poem, we get an insight into the thoughts of a man who kills his love interest out of jealousy: “Nor could to-night’s gay feast restrain.” This gives the impression of Porphyria living a very high status life, just coming from a party, and the narrator being her love interest that she is sneaking away from her life to see. On the other hand, Porphyria’s death could have been

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    In Robert Browning’s poem Porphyria’s lover, the narrator killed his lover to remain in his love forever. There are two main characters in this poem: the female character, Porphyria, and her lover. Her lover is low class while Porphyria comes from a decent family. Because of this difference of social class, Porphyria could not give up her, everything for her love; however, she came to see her lover one night and confessed her love to him. Then, he killed her strangling her throat by her hair in order

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    Porphyria’s Lover The finest woks of Browning endeavor to explain the mechanics of human psychology. The motions of love, hate, passion, instinct, violence, desire, poverty, violence, and sex and sensuousness are raised from the dead in his poetry with a striking virility and some are even introduced with a remarkable brilliance. Thanks to the changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution, so many people living in such close quarters, poverty, violence, and sex became part of everyday life

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    Robert Browning’s poem, “Porphyria’s Lover,” is a dramatic monologue which focuses on gender inequalities in England. Browning effectively exemplifies the males’ desire to dominate women in all spheres of life during the Victorian Era through the speaker’s state of mind, psychology, and actions. The patriarchal society of Victorian England suppressed the female identity and sexuality, by objectifying women and treating them as inferior. In the beginning, Browning shows how dominant Porphyria is by

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    In his fine work, “Porphyria’s Lover,” Robert Browning attempts to explain the mechanism of human’s desire in relation to the emotions of love, sex, fear, obsession, and death. These emotions are raised from the depth in his poetry with a remarkable procreation notion, but they can lead to destruction, such as death. “Porphyria’s Lover” is a dramatic monologue that reveals the thoughts and feelings of the speaker in this poem for his lover, Porphyira, but with his strong desires, the speaker ends

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