Porphyria's Lover

Question 1

Shit outside

Answer 1

It tore the elm-tops down for spite
And did its worst to vex the lake:
I listened with heart fit to break

Question 2

Dutiful

Answer 2

She shut the cold out and the storm
And kneeled and made the cheerless grate
Blaze up, and all the cottage warm;

Question 3

Offers herself to him

Answer 3

She put my arm around her waist
And made her smooth white shoulder bare
And all her yellow hair displaced

Question 4

Believes she’ll leave him

Answer 4

Murmuring how she loved me, she
Too weak, for all her heart's endeavour
To set its struggling passion free
From pride and vainer ties dissever
And give herself to me for ever

Question 5

Can’t be happy in the moment

Answer 5

Porphyria worshipped me; surprise
Made my heart swell, and still it grew
While I debated what to do.

Question 6

Kills her

Answer 6

In one long yellow string I wound
Three times her little throat around
And strangled her. No pain felt she;
I am quite sure she felt no pain

Question 7

Believes he helped her

Answer 7

Only this time my shoulder bore
Her head, which droops upon it still
The smiling rosy little head
So glad it has its utmost will,
That all it scorned at once is fled
And I, its love, am gained instead!

Question 8

Tempts fate

Answer 8

And thus we sit together now,
And all night long we have not stirred
And yet God has not said a word!

Question 9

Goes against society to be with him

Answer 9

But passion sometimes would prevail,
Nor could to-night’s gay feast restrain
A sudden thought of one so pale