porphyrias lover

• quote 1 


  ' the sullen wind was soon awake'
• quote 2 :

  ' blushed bright beneath my burning kiss'
• quote 3 :

  ' and yet god has not said a word'
• 'the sullen wind was soon awake'

  • sullen- miserable
  • pathetic fallacy
  • soon awake- personification, threataning tone, foreshadows later events
• 'and yet god has not said a word'

  • ambiguous ending:
  • doesnt believe in god, porphyria needed to be punished
  • what he did was not a sin
  • suprised?, waiting to be punished
• structure :

  • dramatic monolouge- one perspective, the women is voiceless
  • rhyme scheme- ABABB, has an unstable moment like his frame of mind
• victorian standards :

  • sexual violence was common in the victorian home
  • masculinity was characteristed by self disipline and control
• context: (browning)

  • his mother was a evangical christian
  • he was an atheist
  • believed humans were full of contradictions