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Porphyria's Lover
The narrator's presentation of Porphyria's feelings and actions is unusual because he retains the same tone even after he's described the way he's murdered her. It happens so quickly, and he...
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Porphyria's Lover
"Porphyria's Lover" is written in dramatic monologue, a format Robert Browning popularized and in which he excelled. Unlike some of Browning's monologues that don't have an actual plot but are...
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Porphyria's Lover
I would characterize the speaker of this poem as an unstable person, someone who is out of touch with reality, and a murderer. The speaker is gratified and surprised to learn that Porphyria...
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Porphyria's Lover
Robert Browning's poem "Porphyria's Lover" is written in a genre known as the dramatic monologue, in which the narrator of the poem seems to be speaking to himself or an unknown reader or audience,...
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Othello
The term hamartia, derived from the Greek hamarteinen, which generally means "to commit an error" or "miss the mark," has various other interpretations. The term was first used by Aristotle in...
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Porphyria's Lover
Although there are many themes in each work of literature, if I had to boil this down to one, I would say that Robert Browning stresses the theme of violent love (especially in relation to madness)...
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Robert Browning
At the beginning of the poem, the speaker of this monologue is sitting alone in a cottage with a rain storm raging outside. The speaker is doing nothing but listening and apparently he is disturbed...
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Porphyria's Lover
"Porphyria's Lover" is a narrative poem by Robert Browning. It first appeared in print in 1836. On a stormy night, the narrator's lover, named Porphyria, "glides in" to his house and makes "all...
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Porphyria's Lover
Robert Browning’s poem “Porphyria’s Lover” written in 1836 embraces the shock value of a murdered lover. Browning’s poem uses a dramatic monologue to tell the story of Porphyria and her...
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Robert Browning
Many critics argue that Browning presents the reader with a very different kind of tone compared to other Victorian poets, such as Arnold and Tennyson, whose works are clearly impacted greatly by...
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Porphyria's Lover
Since its first publication in 1836, the popularity of the poem “Porphyria’s Lover” among readers and critics hasn’t waned. It’s written in the form of a dramatic monologue, whose speaker...
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Porphyria's Lover
“Porphyria’s Lover” by Robert Browning is a dramatic monologue. The poem’s story comes from the mind of the man who waits for Porphyria. The poem belongs to the lover and his perspective....
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Porphyria's Lover
“Porphyria’s Lover” by Robert Browning defies the time in which it was written. The Victorian Age was a very prudish time period; consequently, Browning’s topics were not always concerned...
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Porphyria's Lover
"Porphyria's Lover" was quite subversive for its time (and to an extent, still is) but prose writers of Browning's Victorian England were also dabbling in Gothic literature and horror. This is one...
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Porphyria's Lover
'Power and possession' are certainly crucial to the speaker, the Lover, but in the context of this dramatic monologue probably have less to do with the desires of men in general (and thus with...
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Porphyria's Lover
To write about Porphyria's Lover for an advanced undergraduate or graduate course, first you need to choose some salient aspect of the poem, then decide on a critical approach, then do...
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Porphyria's Lover
You are right to focus on this intriguing detail as something that helps us to build up a picture of the narrator in this excellent dramatic monologue. Let us first remind ourselves of how the text...
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Porphyria's Lover
Porphyria's Lover is typical of Robert Browning's dramatic monologues in that the poems reveal as much about the dramatic narrators as about the putative subjects of the poem. Several other poems...
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Porphyria's Lover
I think you have become slightly confused between the two main characters of this excellent poem. Your question implies that there are three characters, but do not forget that the speaker and the...
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Porphyria's Lover
This is a very interesting issue to consider in relation to this great poem and I think the subject of gender is very important in discussing the full complexities of this poem. However, at the...
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Porphyria's Lover
I would strongly suggest selecting another dramatic monologue by Robert Browning. He certainly is the master of dramatic monologues, and it is clear that the various aspects of "Porphyria's Lover"...
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Porphyria's Lover
Robert Browning’s poem, “Porphyria’s Lover,” is considered a classic example of the dramatic monologue. It has a well defined speaker who cannot be identified with the poet. It is a pure...
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Porphyria's Lover
Browning's 'Porphyria's Lover' is a dramatic monologue which means it is written in the first person allowing us to see into the mind of the speaker. Clearly as the speaker is a murderer this is...
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Porphyria's Lover
This poem has an element of the confessional about it, as the narrator, the lover of Porphyria that features in the title, recounts to us what happened that evening with Porphyria and looks back on...
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Porphyria's Lover
This is an excellent and intriguing question! Well done for asking it! It is important to realise that Browning in this poem creates an unreliable narrator whose words we clearly come to doubt as...
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Porphyria's Lover
You have asked a very broad question concerning the entire length of this rather complex poem. I am going to focus on one section of this poem that gives such a rich and disturbing psychological...
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Porphyria's Lover
Both of these poems are dramatic monologues which makes for a good comparison/contrast. The way that they are similar is that both speakers are aware that their love affair is about to end. The...
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Porphyria's Lover
This is one of many excellent narrative poems that Robert Browning produced featuring an unreliable narrator who, perhaps much like the unreliable narrators of Poe's work, is clearly on the edge of...
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Porphyria's Lover
Browning's "Porphyria's Lover" is as much about power as it is love. He takes a narrative about an illicit affair and does two things with it: makes it beautiful and makes it about power. When...
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Porphyria's Lover
Good question. The first thing to say is that the two poems are both dramatic monologues, a style which is specifically associated with the Victorian era of English Literature - and more...
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Porphyria's Lover
Browning appeals to the reader's senses in these two poems the same way poets usually appeal to a reader's senses--through imagery. That's the definition of imagery. In "Porphyria's Lover," for...
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Porphyria's Lover
Numerous answers to your question could be given. Far too many for a short-answer format such as this, in fact. I'll give one answer. Browning's use of a first-person speaker in both poems allows...
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Porphyria's Lover
Porphyria's Lover transgresses and contravenes immensely from the "prudish" Victorian era in that it broke with every canon of spirituality, aesthetics, and social norm accepted at the time. The...
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Porphyria's Lover
Browning has written several dramatic monologues in which the persona is mentally disturbed (My Last Duchess, etc.) This is another one in which the speaker is obviously not of sound mind. During...
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Porphyria's Lover
In "Porphyria's Lover," Browning addresses the obsession the outwardly polite and prudish Victorian society had with sensational stories of horror and depravity. The themes of sex and violence and...
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Porphyria's Lover
the imagery in the poetry of Browning especially in his poem The Last Ride Together
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Porphyria's Lover
I'll answer concerning the Browning poems you are interested in, and let another editor compare them to Keats' imagery. In "Porphyria's Lover," Browning is addressing the obsession the outwardly...
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Porphyria's Lover
In "Porphyria's Lover," Browning is addressing the obsession the outwardly polite and prudish Victorian society had with sensational stories of horror and depravity. The themes of sex and violence...
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Porphyria's Lover
What these lines mean is that Porphyria is not able to follow her heart. Instead, she has been following what society says she must do. So she has been unable to set her heart's passion free...
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Porphyria's Lover
Yes, there is evidence the woman is from the upper class in the poem. Foremost, it is the pale skin. (Stanza 25, line 4, bartleby.com) In the 1800s, it was only farm workers, peasants and slaves...
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Porphyria's Lover
Both of these poems are dramatic monologues which means that the poet has created a character which then talks to us directly through the use of first person. This is interesting for the reader as...
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Porphyria's Lover
In the first five lines it describes the rainy weather outside. The wind picks up as well, and this sets the tone for the poem. The next 10 lines describe her coming inside and warming by the...
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Porphyria's Lover
After the narrator killed his lover, he "propped her head up as before,/Only, this time my shoulder bore", and then sits like that, in semblance of a happy couple, happy that she is his...
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Porphyria's Lover
There were several risks involved in Porphyria's actions.1. Her reputation. During this time period, having affairs with men was a stain on a young lady's reputation. If she was unmarried,...
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Porphyria's Lover
It's "por-fir-ee-aa", though sometimes mispronounced "por-fye-ree-aa". The word derives from the Greek for "purple".
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Porphyria's Lover
Yes! The repetition of the word "mine" in "Mine, mine fair" is significant. In repeating the word, the persona reflects backward (to "that moment she was mine") and forward (to "mine fair,/...
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Porphyria's Lover
Well, if you're focusing on ballads, that's a specific form and tradition of writing, so one of the easiest approaches is to look at how the poem is an example of a ballad and what that means. For...