Robert Browning's Work

The poem consists of one long stanza, written in simple, conversational style, but strongly supported by the rhyme and meter. Persona is an obvious lunatic who sits covers the woman he argues that killed the day before. Porphyria, he says, he came home, started a fire, then sat down beside him and told him that she loved him. Then he killed her, choked her with her own hair, he did it, he explains, so that Porphyry may be forever in the eternal state of love.

Although the "Porphyria's Lover" is a short poem written in simple language, interpretations are many and varied. Most readers, however, tend to focus on the insane person and identify the poem as a portrait of abnormal psychology. Browning's monologues are often voiced by eccentrics, lunatics, or people under emotional stress. Illustrate the nature of their delusions by describing the interaction of personality with an odd set of circumstances is particularly telling. In both "Porphyria Lover" and "My Last Duchess", Browning uses this exposure mode to describe a person who meets the love of a beautiful woman, killing her. Each monologue offers reasons speakers to transform the desired woman from subject to object: in "My Last Duchess", the Duke of jealous murder of his wife, but keeps a portrait of her behind a curtain so no one can look at her smile without his permission, in "Lover's Porphyry" person wants to stop the clock at one point, and so kills her lover, and sits up all night hugging her carefully organized body.

Romantic egoism "Porphyria" persona leads him into all sorts of horribly selfish assumption is compatible with his own desires. He seems convinced that Porphyry would be killed, and claims "No pain felt she" while being strangled, adding, as if to convince himself: "I am quite sure she felt no pain." He may even believe that she enjoys the pain because he was her lover, inflicted it. When she died, he said that she found her "utmost will," and when he sees her lifeless head drooping on his shoulder, he describes it as a "smiling rosy little head", perhaps using the word "pink" to symbolize the red rose of love, or demonstrate their fallacy, that girls and their relationships are still alive.

Her "pink head" can also be a sly reference to the hymen; Porphyry leaves a "gay holiday" and comes from the outside world be "contaminated gloves, now her blue eyes open in death," without spot. "Another interpretation of the incredible pink Porphyry cheeks, laughing eyes and a smiling face is the fact that she is still alive. Lover not to commit murder, but performed an act of erotic asphyxiation [3] lover can also be fetishist, indicating the fact that he refers to her hair several times throughout the poem, and strangles her with it. Since the speaker is mad, it is impossible to know the true nature of his relationship to Porfiry. Theory, some of them are pretty weird, a lot: some modern scholars believe, ...