Porphyria's Lover

Every person has experienced some kind of love through the duration of their lives. Two people loving one another should be a blissful jury through life. Yet, sometimes love has tragic results instead of being joyful. People can become obsessed with the ones that they desire. "Porphyria`s Lover" by Robert Browning is an example of the struggling love that two people have for one another. It becomes obsessive love and then ends in fatal loss. The poet sets up an intense atmosphere using personification and foreshadowing. The stormy weather is described as " The sullen wind", " It tore the elm-tops down for
spite", and "...did its worst to vex the lake". The horrible weather also portrays the irrational mind set of Porphyrias lover. Porphyria seems to have a great importance to the speaker yet his obsession becomes more evident throughout the poem. "A sudden thought of one so pale" and "That moment she was mine, mine..." the speaker states. He
loved Porphyria and believed she was " too weak for all her hearts endeavor".
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