Porphyria's Lover (Unabridged): A Psychological Poem from one of the most important Victorian poets and playwrights, regarded as a sage and philosophe
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Book Overview "Porphyria's Lover" is Browning's first ever short dramatic monologue, and also the first of his poems to examine abnormal psychology. In...
"Porphyria's Lover" is Browning's first ever short dramatic monologue, and also the first of his poems to examine abnormal psychology. In the poem, a man strangles his lover - Porphyria - with her hair. Porphyria's lover then talks of the corpse's blue eyes, golden hair, and describes the feeling of perfect happiness the murder gives him. Although he winds her hair around her throat 3 times to throttle her, the woman never cries out. The poem uses a somewhat unusual rhyme scheme: A, B, A, B, B, the final repetition bringing each stanza to a heavy rest. Robert Browning (1812-1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, and in particular the dramatic monologue, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. His poems are known for their irony, characterization, dark humor, social commentary, historical settings, and challenging vocabulary and syntax. The speakers in his poems are often musicians or painters whose work functions as a metaphor for poetry.
Book Details Format: Paperback | Pages: 96 | Language: English | Publisher: E ARTNOW | ISBN: 8026890957
FormatPaperback
Pages96
LanguageEnglish
ISBN8026890957
EAN9788026890959
PublisherE ARTNOW
Publication Date1970-01-01
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeQUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKS
Weight0.31 Pounds
Length9.0 Inches
Width6.0 Inches
Height0.2 Inches
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