• Repetition of mine shows possession, potentially obsession
• once she gives into her passion she loses her independence
• BACKS UP LOVE AS A WEAKNESS
‘too weak for her heart’sendeavour’
internal fight, however lost it to go see the speaker. had the agency to go see him
‘and made her smooth white shoulder bare’
scandalous behaviour, blasphemous and immodest.
Victorian Era: women were supposed to be pure and modest as if they bare their shoulder it would tempt the men into having lustful thoughts
‘And laid her soiledgloves by, untied / Her hatand let her damphair fall’
sexualundercurrent - she is aware of her sexual power
‘I propped her head up as before,only, this timemy shoulder bore’
roles reversed- she no longer has agency, volta was when she told him she loved him and this is the consequence
what does the form represent in porphyria’s lover?
it is a dramaticmonologue which can be account to reveal that she has beendead since the beginning of the poem- a psychologicaldestruction of the lover
what does the irregular rhyme scheme represent?
a fractured state of mind
what are the missing words:
‘she was ____, ____, ____’
mine, mine, fair
what are the missing words:
‘too ____, for her ______ endeavour’
weak, heart’s
‘and ____ her ______ _____ shoulder bare’
madesmoothwhite
‘and laid her ______ _____ by, ______ / Her ___ ___ let her ____ ____ fall’
soiledglovesuntied / hatanddamphair
‘I _______ her ____ up as ______, ____, this time __ shoulder ____’
proppedheadbeforeonlymybore
‘and all night we have not stirred, / And yet God has not said a word!’
she has been dead since the beginning of the poem, blurred line between life and death- God approves of what he’s done