Michele Etienne Porphyria's lover is a poem by Robert Browning, it is a dramatic monologue from the viewpoint of the man, he remains anonymous. You can draw various conclusions from the poem on what it is about because a lot is left vague so it is up for your own interpretation. The man is a psychopath which explains why he kills her, and the view I take on the poem is that Porphyria had ties elsewhere, perhaps to a man, as I perceive her clothing as a sign of being upper class and the fact she has traveled through the bad weather from a "gay feast" suggests engagements elsewhere. The man is clearly possessive and controlling and doesn't like this. He knows that she loves him as the poem says when he is saying she is all his. He feels by killing her she is then freed from these other engagements forever and he has given her what she really wants; to be with him (he doesn't see the fact she is dead as a bad thing because he is a psychopath). The ending could suggest that he feels what he has done is justified as God hasn't punished him or that he believes himself to be more powerful than God. This is just a brief overview of my interpretations of the poem :)
@Chelle22208 It could be a few things. One is the disease making a man hallucinate. Here's the second. Browning wrote about the dark parts of humanity (like Poe) so it could be that the persona jealously wanted porphyria so after she confessed her love to him(reluctantly) he killed her so she would never say she loved another and so he would have her forever
Well, i didn't get that feeling what i got after reading it from books. U made it without any sense. And remember that it is a dramatic monologue not ur soliloquy
Awful reading in my opinion. Over theatrical and with a nasty supercilious flavour. Anyway, the poem gains nothing from being acted out, and they cannot even spell it correctly on the title card.
Michele Etienne Porphyria's lover is a poem by Robert Browning, it is a dramatic monologue from the viewpoint of the man, he remains anonymous. You can draw various conclusions from the poem on what it is about because a lot is left vague so it is up for your own interpretation. The man is a psychopath which explains why he kills her, and the view I take on the poem is that Porphyria had ties elsewhere, perhaps to a man, as I perceive her clothing as a sign of being upper class and the fact she has traveled through the bad weather from a "gay feast" suggests engagements elsewhere. The man is clearly possessive and controlling and doesn't like this. He knows that she loves him as the poem says when he is saying she is all his. He feels by killing her she is then freed from these other engagements forever and he has given her what she really wants; to be with him (he doesn't see the fact she is dead as a bad thing because he is a psychopath). The ending could suggest that he feels what he has done is justified as God hasn't punished him or that he believes himself to be more powerful than God.
This is just a brief overview of my interpretations of the poem :)
"my interpretations" LOL!
excellent adaptation though. A powerful contemporary slant on Brownings classic tale of abnormal psychology. 5 Stars.
wow great job... amazing.... cant wait to show this to my professor.
@Chelle22208 It could be a few things. One is the disease making a man hallucinate.
Here's the second. Browning wrote about the dark parts of humanity (like Poe) so it could be that the persona jealously wanted porphyria so after she confessed her love to him(reluctantly) he killed her so she would never say she loved another and so he would have her forever
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thanks for watchin porphyrias lover, sorry for the late reply as i have way. i think you have got it right.
okayy sooo for the person who made this video i still am confused with this poem like why did he kill her and what is the poem really about?
Brilliant .... ❤❤
why is the title misspelled here?
Well, i didn't get that feeling what i got after reading it from books. U made it without any sense. And remember that it is a dramatic monologue not ur soliloquy
wrong spelling of porphyria
my name spelt wrong too. Thanks J.
Its more of a soliloquy than daramatic monologue
Nice way to go
Awful reading in my opinion. Over theatrical and with a nasty supercilious flavour. Anyway, the poem gains nothing from being acted out, and they cannot even spell it correctly on the title card.
Stop hating