Porphyrias Lover Flashcards
- Setting a dark and stormy night
- Common gothic device
“The rain set early in to-night”
- First sign of pathetic fallacy
- Represents narrators emotions
“Sullen wind was soon awake”
- Personification
- Annoy
“Did it’s worst to vex the lake”
- The narrator is waiting around for Porphyria getting increasingly more annoyed and angry
- Porphyria has the power to break his heart
“Heart fit to break”
- First mention of Porphyria
“Glided in Porphyria”
- It’s as if Porphyria banishes all bad and cold emotions from the house with her entrance
“ She shut the cold out and the storm”
- Fire
- Passion
- Contrasts with the cold dark themes that introduced the poem
“Blaze up”
- This gives an indication to Porphyrias innocence
- First signs of Porphyria taking charge and acting like a seductress
“ Smooth white shoulder bare”
- Foreshadows future violence in the poem
- Repitition
“Yellow hair”
- It’s as if he isn’t bothered
- Hesitant
- Flirtatious
“Murmuring how she loved me”
- Metaphor- she wants him but something is holding her back
“Struggling passion free”
- Social class
“To-nights gay feast”
- Repetition of opening weather
“Come through wind and rain”
- God, not lover
“Porphyria worshipped me”
- First signs of the narrator showing love towards Porphyria
“Made my heart swell”
- Deciding how to keep her forever
- Cold
- Methodical
“While I debated what to do”
- Vulnerable
- Beautiful
- Innocence
“Perfectly pure and good”
- Turning point
- He has made his decision
“ A thing to do”
- Shocking
- Very descriptive
“In one long yellow string I wound, three times her little throat around”
- Calm
- No emotion
- Matter of fact
“And strangled her”
- Shows his madness
- He believes she’s is happy now
“Laughed the blue eyes without a stain”
- Delusional
- Morbid
- Lifeless
“Blushed bright beneath my burning kiss”
- She is being named as an object
- Perfect
- Vulnerable
- His madness
“The smiling rosy little head”
- Justifying himself
- Madness
“And yet God has not said a word”
