“Porphyria’s Lover” is a dramatic monologue in verse by the English poet Robert Browning, first published (under the title “Porphyria”) in , in Monthly Repository magazine. The poem’s unnamed narrator describes how he came to strangle his lover, Porphyria, with her own hair. "Porphyria’s Lover" is a poem by the British poet Robert Browning, first published in Along with"My Last Duchess," it has become one of Browning’s most famous dramatic monologues—due in no small part to its shockingly dark ending. In the poem, the speaker describes being visited by his passionate lover, Porphyria. Porphyria's Lover Summary. The unnamed speaker of the poem sits by himself in his house on a stormy night. Porphyria, his lover, arrives out of the rain, starts a fire in the fireplace, and takes off her dripping coat and gloves. She sits down to snuggle with the speaker in front of the fire and pulls his head down to rest against her shoulder. The speaker realizes for the first time how much Porphyria loves him.
Porphyria's Lover Summary. 'Porphyria's Lover' is the first short dramatic monologue by Browning. It is uttered by a lover who strangles his beloved to death to eternalize 'that moment'when she was his -'perfectly pure and good'. The poem begins by describing astormy night when Porphyria 'glided in' and 'straight/ She. Porphyria and the speaker keep switching places. At the beginning, the speaker is passive, and allows Porphyria to move his arms around as she sees fit. She does everything, while he just sits on the couch like a lump. But then, abruptly, they swap: the speaker strangles her, and makes Porphyria even more passive than he was. Dive deep into Porphyria's Lover by Robert Browning anywhere you go: on a plane, on a mountain, in a canoe, under a tree. Or grab a flashlight and read Shmoop under the covers. Shmoop's award-winning Poetry Guides are now available on your Kindle. Shmoop eBooks are like having a trusted, fun, chatty, expert poetry-tour-guide always by your side.
“Porphyria’s Lover” is a dramatic monologue in verse by the English poet Robert Browning, first published (under the title “Porphyria”) in , in Monthly Repository magazine. The poem’s unnamed narrator describes how he came to strangle his lover, Porphyria, with her own hair. Porphyria's Lover Introduction "Porphyria's Lover" is one of the earliest of Robert Browning's dramatic monologues. It was originally published in in a magazine called the Monthly Repository under the title "Porphyria," and then republished in in a book called Dramatic Lyrics alongside another of Browning's poems, "Johannes Agricola in Meditation." The publication titled the two poems, collectively, "Madhouse Cells.". Porphyria's Lover Summary. The unnamed speaker of the poem sits by himself in his house on a stormy night. Porphyria, his lover, arrives out of the rain, starts a fire in the fireplace, and takes off her dripping coat and gloves. She sits down to snuggle with the speaker in front of the fire and pulls his head down to rest against her shoulder. The speaker realizes for the first time how much Porphyria loves him.
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