Hama Sallah 2
Mohammed Hassan Hama Sallah
Mr. Aso Rasool
Poetry
25-Jan-2014
Love in Porphyria's Lover
The most important theme of 'Porphyria's Lover" is Love itself. It shows that when you fall in love with someone, you will go above and past to keep that loved one close to you. When you read this poem, you can tell that she is in love with him. She was giving herself to him. The speaker was very happy; he knew that she was his. He knew at that moment that she loved him, he could not accept letting anyone else have going her, so he killed her. Porphyria obviously trusts her lover, which puts her in the position of being exposed to him, so that she is killed. By killing her, this could not happen and she would be his forever. In this poem the narrator is madly in love, not only symbolically but also accurately; he is madman (psychopath).
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