porphyria's lover

• "the sullen wind was soon awake"
• "she shut out the cold and the storm"
• "porphyria worshipped me"
• "i wound three times her little throat arround"


  the lack of change in rhythm shows his calmness
• "again laughed the blue eyes without a stain"
• what are 4 key themes?

  madness, passivity, sin, sexuality
• what is the poems form?

  the poem is a dramatic monolouge. there is an asymmetrical rhyme scheme and enjambent which reinforce the speakers lack of stability
• what is the structure

  linear
• how would readers feel?

  disgusted by porphyria's actions- modern readers would feel sympathetic
• what is the context?

  written in the victorian era when females were mistreated and men dominated