Lover

The Demon Lover is a short story which contained a vast theme. The two main themes: horror and romance mingled together, accompanying with the extraordinary use of descriptive languages to describe the ambiance, thus creating suspense. Through the portrayal of the “steamy, showery sky” and the internal environment of the old and vacant house, the author tried to evoke queerness and eerie to both the readers and the main character, Mrs. Drover. With the uses of pictorial words, Elizabeth successfully

“The Demon Lover” is a short story about a woman, Kathleen Drover, returning to her abandoned home in London to collect old belongings. The moment Kathleen reached her destination at the house, she began to feel unsettled and anxious. Kathleen’s once familiar home now gave off an unfamiliar queerness (Bowen 1). Kathleen and her family evacuated their quaint house to move to the countryside for safety from the destruction of war. As Kathleen explores her house more, she encounters unexpected items

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

'In Sons and Lovers, Paul is not really torn between Miriam and Clara but rather between his mother and his father.' Discuss. Sons and Lovers is considered one of the greatest English novels of the twentieth century. Centred on the lives of an English rural family, the novel explores issues relating to marriage, family, industrialism, class and sexuality. While the first sections of the book focus on the early marriage of Mr and Mrs. Morel, it is their second son Paul who comes to dominate the

he did. This is the scenario that Robert Browning has built for his readers. How can these crazy things be understood? What are we supposed to learn about the killer in this poem, and how does Browning show us these things? In the poem “Porphyria’s Lover,” Robert Browning uses careful diction and contrast to show that The Speaker in the poem yearns for control over his life. Browning uses diction describing porphyria as angelic to stress her majestic qualities to the reader. She is capable of making

Psychotic Doter “Porphyria’s Lover” by Robert Browning, commences off as a romantic poem being told by a deranged doter which anon, then has an ironic plot twist towards the cessation of the poem. Porphyria’s Lover was the first short dramatic monologue that Browning indite. In a dramatic monologue, the reader is revealed what the character is thinking and how they feel. This poem became published in January 1836. It is also one of his first poems to feature a character with a clinical dementia

Porphyria’s Lover is a disturbing monologue about a man, who’s warped love drives him to strangle his lover, Porphyria, with her own hair. Most of Browning’s narrators are sinister characters, and in this case, the man narrating is believed to have psychosis, which causes him hallucinate and dissociate from reality. The poem’s eeriness can be attributed to the narrator, who adopts a chillingly calm tone that contrasts the horror of the murder. The woman is named after the disease, Porphyria, which

Porphyrias Lover, My Last Duchess and The Flea all have the theme of love in them Porphyrias Lover, My Last Duchess and The Flea all have the theme of love in them. But they are not all the same theme of love for example Porphyrias Lover is obsessive and seductive love whereas; The Flea is more like sexual love. Robert Browning writes both Porphyrias Lover and My Last Duchess and John Donne writes The Flea. I think Porphyrias Lover and My Last Duchess are alike as Robert Browning uses

Written by Elizabeth Bowen, “The Demon Lover” was First published in The Listener in 1941, and reprinted in The Demon Lover and Other Stories in 1945 , “The Demon Lover” is typically initiated as a clever tale of witchcraft possession. The story takes place in the in the middle of World War I and II, when the main protagonist Kathleen Drover returns to her house in London to pick up some things after her family moved due to the bombing from the war. “The Demon Lover” is a tale of one woman 's introspective

Robert Browning’s “Porphyria’s Lover” was first published in 1836 in a small magazine under the title “Porphyria.” The poem tells of a man who kills his lover named Porphyria after she sets her “passion free” (23) and decides to “give herself to [him] forever” (25). Another poem with the same underlying theme as “Porphyria’s Lover” was published in 1681- named “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell. Both tell about the relationship between lovers, but “Porphyria’s Lover” ends with murder, while “To