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Porphyria's Lover Literature Analysis

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Porphyria's lover is one of the famous poems by Robert Browning. Robert Browning was well-known as an English poet and playwright in the Victorian era. He focused on irony, characterization, dark humor, social commentary, history, etc. Robert Browning created a work of poetry with the theme of dramatic monologue and was able to make him known in The British entitled Porphyria's lover. Porphyria's lover tells the story of irony and tragic love stories like Jack and Rose, but not many people know that porphyria's story is dark. Love and obsession are different things, but many people don't know how to love properly, so this is the case with the story behind this poem.

Porphyria's lover used so many kinds of figurative language. "The sullen wind was soon awake, it tore the elm-tops down for spite," this sentence means like the wind which acts like a human. This expresses feelings of anger, disappointment, and heartbreak. This is a figurative language, a personification. "She shut the cold out and the storm," is a hyperbole figurative language. That has too much meaning or exaggeration. "The smiling rosy little head," is one kind of figurative language, named irony. That sentence express strong emotions which tell us about the feeling of happiness felt by him seeing his lover gone, and thinking the deeds he did were right based on pure love. "As a shut bud that holds a bee," is a simile, because similes often use or like to compare two things that aren't alike.

This poem is not bound by the rules. Every line in this poem contains several sentences. Tonight's rain began to fall early, and the sour breeze soon awoke. It did its worst to irritate the lake and tore the old spiked top style. I heard what was being spoken with a broken heart, therefore what is happening here is basically what the speaker is stating. It was a stormy night, and a really strong wind was blowing. The wind tore down trees in rage and attempted to disrupt the lake's water, and I listened nearly inconsolably when a woman in porphyria straight shut out the storm by kneeling and lighting a great fire, warming the entire cottage. In essence, the woman with porphyria enters the room and blocks out the bad weather. She then kneels down to the fireplace and starts a fire to warm the space. After doing this, she rose, removed the wet cloak and shawl from her form, laid her soiled gloves by, tied a hat, and let her damp hair fall. Finally, she sat down by my side and called out to me. Wendover slipped my arm around her waist, exposing her smooth, white shoulder, and making all of her yellow hair displaced and dumb when no voice responded. She spread my cheap lie over her entire head of yellow hair while muttering to herself about how much she loved me, but she was too frail to put her heart on.

She pushed my head down to rest on her shoulder, lifted her hair out of the way, and then covered both of us with her hair while professing her love for me. She, despite her love, is unable to extricate herself from her sense of entitlement and her ties to the past. There is one woman I'll talk about forever who offered herself to me, but sometimes passion overcame reason, as tonight's did. Stop yourself from having an unexpected idea about someone so pale out of love for her. I gazed up at her eyes and saw that she had finally arrived after enduring wind and rain. I was astonished to learn that Porphyria adored me, and I remained silent. So my cherish of her all for nothing she came through the storm to me and looked at her eyes and she was so upbeat and pleased and I knew she worshiped me so astounded, made my heart feel full and still it developed whereas. I have chosen what to do or maybe evil bit there presently I'll fair say at this point folks merely know in your lesson in your thinks about. You may analyze various things about the storyline of this poem, you know why can't they be together is it that she's married there's some suggestion that there's a class distinction she's been at this party porphyria is a word that links to purple. Purple is a color linked to royalty perhaps as a sort of upper-class lower-class illicit relationship. Let's talk about Rhythm in this poem there is a little neat repetition of syllables for example in the sentence "That moment she was mine, mine, fair".

The rhyme plot is A-B-A-B-B, beginning with interchange line rhyme which sounds very lilting, very melodic, and nearly loose. Couplet at the conclusion increments the pace abruptly and gives a sense of a disturbing halt some time recently it proceeds once more. Once more this appears to the pulse of the storyteller and is greatly perturbing. The unimaginably formal structure once more mirrors his require for control. So the sound in this poem is related to rhymes, where each final syllable has a similarity of tones for example in the first line, the first verse and the third verse have similar tones namely (night and spite) and in the second verse, the fourth verse and the fifth verse have similar sounds, namely (awake, lake, break). So it is with the following stanzas.

            In conclusion, Porphyria's Lover is a poem that has appeal to readers or listeners. If you like romantic poems or humor then Porphyria's Lover is something you should avoid. But besides the tragic story in the poem, the components of figurative language, rhyme, rhythm, and sound can make people want to read and understand every line. In addition, Porphyria's Lover also reflects human life. In many ways, literature has told a lot about human life from the aspects of society, politics, economy, culture, etc. The aspect of "Love" is also inseparable when we talk about Poetry. As explained at the beginning, the story in Porphyria's Lover cannot be confused with Jack and Rose in Titanic.  Although, one of the fundamental problems is the difference in class status between the two stories. However, Porphyria's Lover harbors so much fear, sadness, and pity for the long yellow-haired beauty that she was in the upper class. He considered that the love he had was pure love until he decided to sit together with the corpse of his lover with a sense of pride. It is a reflection of human behavior that we encounter in real life, with many cases of He or She killing their lover because of love that has been blinded by lust. 

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