Search for notes by fellow students, in your own course and all over the country.
Browse our notes for titles which look like what you need, you can preview any of the notes via a sample of the contents. After you're happy these are the notes you're after simply pop them into your shopping cart.
Title: Porphyria’s Lover
Description: Several poetic techniques and examples from Robert Browning's 'Porphyria's Lover'. Accompanied with explanations and analysis into each quote along with how the poem fits into the context of the time Browning was writing.
Description: Several poetic techniques and examples from Robert Browning's 'Porphyria's Lover'. Accompanied with explanations and analysis into each quote along with how the poem fits into the context of the time Browning was writing.
Document Preview
Extracts from the notes are below, to see the PDF you'll receive please use the links above
Porphyria’s Lover
*Iambic Pentameter* ‘The sullen wind was soon awake’ ‘And strangled her
...
Calm and collected all the way through the poem even
when he’s just killed her
...
Helps create a strong image in your mind
...
’ Sentence by itself is very plain and straightforward to make it
seem even creepier
...
’
-Shows how crazy he is, obsessed over her
...
-It also shows how immature he is, not wanting to share
...
*Lack of Full Stops* ‘When glided in Porphyria; straight
...
’
-No full stops for 20 lines, line 6 until line 25
...
Much like the
Duke in ‘My Last Duchess’, likes thinking too himself, narcissist
...
-‘give’ makes it sound as if she wants to be killed
...
*Rhyming Scheme* ‘night
...
spite
...
I listened
with heart fit to break’
-ABABB Rhyming Scheme
...
It symbolises his
confusing, chaotic mind
...
Imagery
...
Context
-The poem starts off very similar to Romantic Poetry of the earlier 19th Century
...
-Porphyria dying because of her beauty and the fact that she’s possibly sleeping
with two men at once is Browning trying to make society feeling bad for her and
challenge the idea that Women are not the victims when they sleep around
Title: Porphyria’s Lover
Description: Several poetic techniques and examples from Robert Browning's 'Porphyria's Lover'. Accompanied with explanations and analysis into each quote along with how the poem fits into the context of the time Browning was writing.
Description: Several poetic techniques and examples from Robert Browning's 'Porphyria's Lover'. Accompanied with explanations and analysis into each quote along with how the poem fits into the context of the time Browning was writing.