Porphyria's Lover

• "the sullen wind was soon awake"

  • pathetic fallacy
  • miserable wind
  • ominous threatening atmosphere
• "heart fit to break"

  • mental instability
  • emotional breaking point
• "glided in Porphyria"

  • magical
  • against Victorian ideal - a lonely woman
• "she shut the cold out and the storm"

  • powerful / positive force
  • taking control and in charge
• "damp hair fall"

  • repressed female
  • sexuality
  • sinfully open and flaunting
• "Porphyria worshipped me"

  • wants love and power over her
• "that moment she was mine, mine"

  • preserving
  • possessive
  • disturbing
  • emphasises lust
• "In one long yellow string I wound three times her little throat around, and strangled her"

  • shocking and unexpected
  • no rhythmic change