Porphyrias Lover Flashcards
Quotes
Which quote?
Pathetic fallacy
Moody connotations
Setting: Dark, stormy night
“The sullen wind was soon awake”
Connotations: violent, aggressive, powerful.
Deliberately hurt, petty.
“It tore the elm tops down for spite”
Annoy
Personifying the “lake”
“did its worst to vex the lake”
Graceful, elegant, angelic, ghostly.
Contrast: violent weather, oblivious danger.
“When glided in Porphyria”
Intimate, seductive.
Detailed list of movements.
Hint at obssession.
Sinister.
“Withdrew the dripping cloak and shawl”
Foreshadowing.
Improper for Victorian women.
“Let the damp hair fall,”
Repetition, foreshadowing.
Obsession.
Bright, beautiful, noticable.
“Yellow hair”
She wants him but something is holding her back.
“Struggling passion free”
Possessive,
Unwilling to leave her family.
“Give herself to me for ever”
Quote that shows her high class.
Another phrase for a fancy party.
“to-night’s gay feast”
Repetition of the opening weather.
“come through wind and rain”
God, not lover
“Porphyria worshipped me”
The turning point.
“I found a thing to do”
Revelation of what he actually did.
“In one long yellow string I wound, Three times her little throat around”
Calm, no emotion, matter-of-fact.
“And strangled her”
