Blog 2/1/2018
Porphyria Lover
- Setting seems to be correspond with the sanity of the narrator
- The narrator is distraught in the beginning as the setting is very wild
- He seems very content and happy in the end as the setting is calm
- Yellow hair as an extended motif? 3X
- Speaker is very straightforward throughout the play
- interesting were only receiving the narrators perspective
- Lover never gets a chance to talk
- Yellow means disease?
- Porphyria is a disease in modern terms... how does that play into this poem?
- Is he looking for a host? (disease reference)
- "the moment was mine" (36) he lives in the moment, but this is also premeditated bc he mentions he mentions "nor could tonights gay feast restrained" (27)
- Still amazing she hasn't said anything. Why? Conceited?
- Amazing dichotmoy between her propping his head up in the beginning vs him propping up her head in the end
- He is looking for justification even in the end when he mentions God hasnt said anything yet
- Very unholy act though
Five Essential Elements
- How does this fit into a poem like Porphyria's Lover where there is very little character development?
- Setting clearly plays a huge and foretelling role in Brownings Poems, The Last Duchess takes place in a creepy foyer room
- Also lack of problem and solutions is interesting
- Setting seems to be correspond with the sanity of the narrator
- The narrator is distraught in the beginning as the setting is very wild
- He seems very content and happy in the end as the setting is calm
- Yellow hair as an extended motif? 3X
- Speaker is very straightforward throughout the play
- interesting were only receiving the narrators perspective
- Lover never gets a chance to talk
- Yellow means disease?
- Porphyria is a disease in modern terms... how does that play into this poem?
- Is he looking for a host? (disease reference)
- "the moment was mine" (36) he lives in the moment, but this is also premeditated bc he mentions he mentions "nor could tonights gay feast restrained" (27)
- Still amazing she hasn't said anything. Why? Conceited?
- Amazing dichotmoy between her propping his head up in the beginning vs him propping up her head in the end
- He is looking for justification even in the end when he mentions God hasnt said anything yet
- Very unholy act though
Five Essential Elements
- How does this fit into a poem like Porphyria's Lover where there is very little character development?
- Setting clearly plays a huge and foretelling role in Brownings Poems, The Last Duchess takes place in a creepy foyer room
- Also lack of problem and solutions is interesting
I think the final line is very interesting. He obviously doesn't regret his actions, but how can he really believe that God would endorse such a brazen act as murdering someone who is innocent and loves you? Maybe the narrator doesn't think that Porphyria is innocent and considers her guilty of a crime? Betraying him perhaps? Regardless, the final line convinces me that his moral compass is really messed up.
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